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You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. Skip to main content Department of Modern Languages and Literatures About History Media Literacy Faculty Books Contact News Programs of Study Romance Languages Major Learning Goals French German Hebrew and Yiddish Italian Portuguese Spanish Admissions People All Faculty Graduate Students Events Main Menu Visit A&S Magazine Explore JHU Explore JHU Inside the Krieger School Departments, Programs, and Centers Faculty Directory Fields of Study Majors & Minors Student & Faculty Resources Academic Catalog Faculty Handbook Registrar's Office University Policies & Document Library Across Campus Admissions & Aid Johns Hopkins University Website Maps & Directions myJHU × Department of Modern Languages and Literatures About History Media Literacy Faculty Books Contact News Programs of Study Romance Languages Major French German Hebrew and Yiddish Italian Portuguese Spanish Admissions People All Faculty Graduate Students Events Search This Website Previous Slide ◀︎ Next Slide ▶︎ Hebrew and Yiddish Program Understand the various aspects of the cultural, artistic, religious, ideological, and political identities that are reflected in the Hebrew letters. Find Out More Romance Languages Major Specialize in two or three of the romance languages offered by the department to complete a romance language major. Find Out More Italian Program Immerse yourself in Italian culture and literature with courses ranging from Italian cinema, art, and music, to Dante and Boccaccio. Find Out More Portuguese Program Discover the diverse cultural and literary worlds of Brazil, Portugal, and the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa and Asia. Find Out More German Program Take an interdisciplinary approach to German and Yiddish literature in this program recognized as a leading force in literary criticism. Find Out More Spanish Program Choose from a wide range of courses in the language and literatures of Spain and Latin America, as well as technical courses such as Business, Medical, and Legal Spanish, and Translation for the Professions. Find Out More French Program Engage with distinguished experts in French literature, language, cultural studies, and film. Find Out More The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures encompasses the study of French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, and Yiddish-speaking worlds. More than 300 courses are offered every year, from introductory language classes to advanced graduate seminars in literature and theory. News & Announcements Italian Program Italian Graduate Victoria Fanti Awarded Alexander Grass Fellowship November 19, 2019 Doctoral candidate in Italian Victoria Fanti was awarded the “Alexander Glass Humanity Institute Graduate Research Fellowship” for spring 2020, for her dissertation project The New Killer Queens of Italian Renaissance Tragedy. Victoria’s dissertation, “The New Killer Queens of Italian Renaissance Tragedy,” studies how tragedians of the classical genre’s revivaldeployed new renderings of homicidal women during the Italian Renaissance. […] Italian Program Where are they now? News from our grads November 16, 2019 Please join us in congratulating our alumnus Francesco Brenna, who received his PhD in spring 2019 and joined the Department of French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington this fall as Visiting Lecturer in Italian. Ad maiora Francesco! Italian Program Affective Colonialism in 1930s Libya – Gilman 108, 5.15 PM- Nov. 19th November 15, 2019 Italo Balbo is globally known as an aviation pioneer, but he was also the governor of Libya from 1934 to 1940. Graziella Parati is interested in analyzing a particular document that he wrote in which Balbo employed the language of affect in order to list the Italian “achievements” in its fourth shore, Libya. Once he […] View News & Announcements Archive Associated Centers & Journals The Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought Centre Louis Marin for Interdisciplinary French Studies Center for Advanced Media Studies Charles S. Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe Modern Language Notes Digital Philology The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute Resources Graduate Student Handbook (PDF) KRESCAL Sitemap Careers Privacy Statement Emergency Contacts Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube © 2020 Johns Hopkins University, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Gilman Hall, Room 401 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 E-mail: mll@jhu.edu | Phone: 410-516-7227 | Fax: 410-516-5358...