Duke University Language Programs

Romance Studies is a multilingual, interdisciplinary, and genuinely global department that explores the culture, thought, and practices of communities where romance languages — French, Haitian Creole, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish — are or were once spoken. Their department has an expansive reach through many centres, programs, and sites located in Durham and around the globe. 

Their faculty mentor and guides their students from their initial steps in learning the basics of the language to their intellectual and professional engagement with native cultures and their speakers. While their discipline is rooted in the philological and literary methods, Romance Studies’ excellent faculty specializes in health humanities, critical race studies, decoloniality, intellectual history, translation, visual studies, service learning, gender and sexuality studies, modernism, critical economics, and linguistic rights, among others, all studied through a rigorous frame.