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Department of Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies (FIGS)

The Francophone, Italian, & Germanic Studies (FIGS) department is a vibrant intellectual community with a shared commitment to the study of culture through language, literature, and visual media. FIGS offers language courses in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Swedish, and Yiddish as well as advanced seminars on literature and culture in a global context.

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2025 Grantees

• Decolonizing French Food
  • Elizabeth Collins
  • 2025
  • Department of Africana Studies
  • First-Year Seminar
  • School of Arts & Sciences
  • Teaching Art Grant
• Paris Under the German Occupation and Its Places of [Non-]Memory
  • Mélanie Péron
  • 2025
  • Curricular Support
  • School of Arts & Sciences
  • Teaching Art Grant
• Caves, Cathedrals, and Curiosities: Unearthing Stories of the Chemin des Dames in France
  • Lisa Ann Britton
  • 2025
  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • Curricular Support
  • Penn Global
  • Teaching Art Grant
• Philadelphia Through Copper: Intaglio Depictions of Contemporary Histories (working title)
  • Katie Hindle
  • 2025
  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • Student Grant
  • Student Creative Production
  • Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design

2024 Grantees

• Caves, Cathedrals, and Curiosities: Unearthing Stories on the Chemin des Dames in France
  • Lisa Britton
  • 2024
  • Curricular Support
  • School of Arts & Sciences
  • Teaching Art Grant

2023 Grantees

• Contemporary Italy: Black Italy
  • Rossella Di Rosa
  • 2023
  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • First-Year Seminar
  • Teaching Art Grant
• The Woodlands Magazine
  • Meg Gladieux and Mira Sydow
  • 2023
  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • Department of English
  • Kelly Writers House
  • Penn Urban Studies
  • Student Grant
  • Student Creative Production
• Making Italian Art Media Accessible for Language Classrooms
  • Julia Heim
  • 2023
  • Curricular Support
  • School of Arts & Sciences
  • Teaching Art Grant

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