Our Vision

The Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies plays an integral role in promoting multilingual proficiency and intercultural understanding to prepare students for life and work as professionals in a global environment and as citizens in a multicultural society.

Special Announcements

The recipients of the 2012 University of Alberta Awards for Teaching Excellence have just been announced, and it is our great pleasure to congratulate Mathieu Martin-LeBlanc, who has won a William Hardy Alexander Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Well done, Mathieu, and very well-deserved! 

Congratulations to Dr. Russell Cobb for his nomination in the 2011 National Magazine Awards. His short story, “Up in the Air” featured in the magazine, Eighteen Bridges was nominated in the category of Personal Journalism.

Dr. Iman Mersal has been invited to participate in the UK’s largest poetry festival, The Poetry Parnassus. This event, accompanying the Olympics, has invited a poet from each nation competing in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games to London at the end of June for a week of readings and workshops. For more information, please click here.