Spotlights:

Dr. Mélanie Lamotte
Dr. Mélanie Lamotte joins UT Austin as an Assistant Professor of French starting in Fall 2022. Before joining us at UT, she was Assistant Professor and Andrew W. Mellon Junior Professor in the Department of French & Italian of Tulane University, and a Research Fellow (2021-22) at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
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Sofía Aluma-Santos (Undergraduate)
A dual degree graduate with a B.A. in French Honors and B.B.A. in Marketing from McCombs, and a recipient of the James Stephens Memorial Excellence Departmental Scholarship in 2014. She completed a French honors thesis on the lives of the Maghreb women in France, as expressed through literature and starred in the French Department’s student production of Molière’s Les Précieuses ridicules.
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Francesca Beretta (Graduate)
Francesca Beretta is an Italian Studies PhD candidate at UT FRIT. She received her MA in Language and Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK. In Spring 2022 she will be teaching "Advanced Italian".
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