Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures
The Department of Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures develops language proficiency to foster critical thinking through literary, cinematic, and linguistic analysis and hence to establish incisive perspectives on cultures and civilizations, including our own. The many faculty and student accomplishments in research, teaching, and service to the community build a solid foundation for exciting professional futures by informed, engaged citizens.
Students can earn a B.A. in French, German, Italian, Russian, or Spanish with concentrations in Literature and Culture or Language and World Business. A bachelor's degree in the Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Program can include a concentration in Chinese or Japanese, and the parallel Latin American Studies Program includes a Portuguese concentration.
We also provide laboratory-based language learning in Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. For more information, please visit "Taped Language Program".
MFLL News
- Dr. Dolly Young, Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, has just published !Vívelo!
with John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Adboulaye Yansané, GTA in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (French),
has just had his first novel, Destinées, published with Editions Phoenix
- Globalization and its Apparitions/La Globalización y sus Espejismos, edited
by Michael Handelsman, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures,
and Olaf Berwald, was recently published by the distinguished Ecuadorian publishing house El Conejo.
- Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Africana and Francophone Studies
- Employment Opportunity: Professor, "The Shumway Chair"
Languages Tables
- Chinese Language Table
5-6 P.M. @ International House
- La Table française (The French Table)
5-6 P.M. @ International House dining room
- Japanese Language Table @I-House, 5-6 P.M.
Other activities please click here - La Table française (The French Table)
5:15-6:15 P.M. @ Sunspot Restaurant
( 1909 Cumberland Ave.)
Every Friday
- La Tertulia (The Spanish Table)
5-7pm @ Cool Beans
(1817 Lake Ave.) - Bate-Papo (The Portuguese Table)
- Russian Table
4-6pm @ Panera
(except SECOND Friday @ Sunspot)
Language Tables sponsored by the International House
Contact Information
Department of Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures
1115 Volunteer Blvd.
701 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996 -0470
Phone: (865) 974-2312
Fax: (865) 974-7096
E-Mail: mfll@utk.edu