Graduate Programs
We welcome applications for our MA and PhD programs in French, Spanish, and Romance Languages and Literatures. Applications to enter the program with a Teaching Assistantship must be received by February 1st. Applications to enter the programs without Teaching Assistantship are accepted on a rolling basis.
We offer a French MA and a Spanish MA; tracks within the MA allow students to specialize in literature, creative writing or pedagogy. We also offer a dual French-WGSS (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality) MA.
We offer a variety of professional development opportunities to our graduate students: editorial assistantships with the Department's Cincinnati Romance Review (CRR), online teaching training, participating in our study abroad programs or organizing academic events, for instance.
Our PhD program takes pride in training versatile scholars and experienced teachers. Our doctorate is a pioneer in accepting creative dissertations as well as research-based dissertations. With our excellent language-instructor training and our careful mentoring in research methods, we prepare doctoral students for success in college-level teaching or in other professional opportunities of their choice. Our placement record is excellent!
RALL sees literary, cultural, historical and pedagogical research, as well as creative writing, central to its mission. We are committed to fostering interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exchanges and conversations on current European, Francophone and Latin American issues. We offer classes toward the A&S Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Translation and Translation Studies. Every year we organize the Cincinnati Conference on Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures, the oldest graduate student conference in the United States. Our department also publishes the Cincinnati Romance Review, founded in 1981-82.
Siham Bouamer, Ph.D., Contemporary French, Maghrebi, and Queer Studies
Mauricio Espinoza, Ph.D., Spanish and Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies Muhammad Faruque, Ph.D., Islamic Studies
Michael Gott, Ph.D., Transnational Cinema Studies and Contemporary French Culture
Carlos M. Gutiérrez, Ph.D., Early Modern Spanish Literature Janine Hartman French Culture Fenfang Hwu, Ph.D., Second Language Acquisition
Thérèse Migraine-George, Ph.D., Francophone Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies Kara Moranski, Ph.D., Applied Linguistics
María Paz Moreno, Ph.D., Contemporary Spanish Poetry and Cultural Studies
Patricia Valladares-Ruiz, Ph.D., Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Film
Please see the Department Directory for a complete list of Department members and their bios.
At the MA level, we offer tracks in Literature (Spanish), Creative Writing (Spanish), Pedagogy (French and Spanish), and French and Francophone Studies and FrancoArabic Studies. We also offer a dual MA in French and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. For current UC undergraduate students, we offer a 4+1 MA program, which allows the completion of an MA in just one year beyond the BA.
Students majoring in French and Spanish now have the possibility of completing a BA and an MA in French or Spanish in five years instead of the traditional six. In the fifth-year students will pay tuition at the undergraduate rate, thus saving a considerable amount of money. Students must register for one graduate class in the Fall of their senior year, and a second one in the Spring, for a total of 8 credits. (Students should take between 6-10 grad credits during their senior year).
For more information, please refer to the RALL Graduate Student Handbook, or contact the RALL Director of Graduate Studies, Siham Bouamer, Ph.D.
The Romance Languages and Liternatures Ph.D offers two areas of study: Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies and Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies. Ph.D. students are encouraged to develop their own particular doctoral program according to their fields of interests and their dissertation topic. For the Candidacy Exams, students will choose three areas from the doctoral Reading list, plus the bibliography of their Dissertation prospectus. Students are encouraged to take a minimum of 4 graduate courses (16 credits) in the Major Field and Dissertation Area, but Ph.D. students are expected to read and research independently as much as possible in their Major Field and Dissertation Area.
For more information, please refer to the RALL Graduate Student Handbook, or contact the RALL Director of Graduate Studies, Siham Bouamer, Ph.D.