French Program at Pitt

04/01/2025

FRIT Graduate Conference this Friday, April 4th, with keynote by Dr. Julia Frengs (Nebraska)!

03/19/2025

Come decorate with the Italian and French Tables!

03/12/2025

We are delighted to announce the 2025 Philip Watts Memorial Lecture:

Dr. Noémie Ndiaye (University of Chicago)
"Inventing Racial Whiteness: Early Modern Playbooks of Racial Triangulation"

Wednesday, April 2, 2025
1:30PM-3:00PM
William Pitt Union Ballroom
Refreshments after the lecture

02/27/2025

French minors and majors, stop by for our French Advising Luncheon on Thurs March 13th--grab some lunch and learn about exciting fall courses and opportunities with our major!

02/27/2025

Check out our new online summer course taught in English: France Today!

02/25/2025

We're over $1000 and close to 30 separate donations, and it's only 3pm!

To support student stipends relating to faculty-supervised undergraduate research, creative work, and internships.This work may include research on sustainability (coming out of courses on Green France, Thinking the Earth, and Global Fictions of Climate Change) or research on French and Francophone....

02/18/2025

Dear Alums, Family, and Friends of the French program at Pitt, next week, February 25th, is the annual Pitt Day of Giving!
This year, our department aims to grow awards for the French undergraduate program, in particular faculty-supervised undergraduate research, creative work, and internships.
A gift from you on PDoG will not only support our department directly but could also help us win additional challenge money from Dean Leibovich. The department with the most unique donors who give at least $5 will win $2,500!
I hope you will join me in supporting FRIT on Pitt Day of Giving. Make your gift on February 25th at https://pittdayofgiving.com/campaigns/french-and-italian-languages-and-literatures. Please don’t hesitate to share the link or QR code (on poster) with your networks (social, family and friends) – help us spread the word!
Thank you, John

10/30/2023

Study in Francophone west Africa this summer. Talk French in the streets, in the classroom, in a homestay. See how French functions as a global language. And you'll get some great food. An experience not to be missed.

Overview Location and Housing Academics Faculty and Staff Costs Dates Welcome to this 7 credit Maymester in Dakar Senegal, the western gateway to the African continent where Senegal is increasingly viewed as the arts and culture capital of the continent with a rich history in literature, cinema, art...

10/23/2023

Lille! Summer!

10/23/2023

Drink coffee (free). Speak French.

10/23/2023

Join us--and the amazing Dr. Anna Rosensweig--to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the French Nationality Room!

07/07/2023

https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/pitt%E2%80%99s-gateway-africa-opening-doors-senegal

Senegal is known to many as the gateway to the African continent—a title that has certainly proved true to Pitt’s Center for African Studies (CAS). CAS started summer 2023 by sending a multi-disciplinary team on a journey to meet with potential collaborators, participate in cultural activities, ...