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Romance Languages and Literatures
Recent News
Dan Nemser Awarded Prestigious Faculty Fellowship
Congratulations to Dan Nemser for receiving the 2025-2026 Faculty Fellowship from the Institute of the Humanities! This prestigious award will allow him a year of research on Indigenous culture, race, and political hierarchy in colonial Latin America.
Lorenzo García-Amaya & Gustavo Verdesio Win LSA Michigan Humanities Awards
Lorenzo García-Amaya and Gustavo Verdesio have been awarded the LSA Michigan Humanities Award, granting them dedicated time to advance their research in the humanities and qualitative social sciences.
Welcome to Romance Languages and Literatures
With over 750 million global speakers, learning a Romance language opens doors in the global community. The communication, critical and creative thinking skills coupled with the global perspective that our program fosters, are invaluable to a variety of career paths such as business, law, education, medicine, government, the arts, and social work. Whether in Ann Arbor or Argentina, Spain, Italy or Brazil, our alumni have innumerable opportunities to make differences in the lives of others.
RLL students have the opportunity to study in diverse locations including Buenos Aires, Dakar, São Paulo, Granada, Bologna, Paris, and many more. By providing insight into the social and intellectual life of other peoples, studying a Romance Language fosters humanistic attitudes and cultivates a spirit of tolerance and understanding.