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Modern Languages

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An overview and description of the Modern Languages department at Denison University.
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Faculty & Staff

2025

What's Happening

Denison professors publish linguistics research

Professors document linguistic generational change in Lorain Puerto Rican Spanish.

Date: September 26, 2025

2023

Faculty

Prof. Kirk Combe launches blog about culture

Professor Emeriti Kirk Combe shares his fun reflections on all kinds of culture in a blog titled “Rant Against the Regime.”

Date: February 27, 2023

2019

Announcements & Updates

Flavors of the Globe lunch September 2019!

Enjoy international cuisine with Denisonians during Flavors of the Globe, campus-wide potluck lunch, while also learning about global opportunities.

Date: September 6, 2019

2018

Field Trips

Concert by Quebecois Singer Bruno Pelletier

French students and faculty took in a concert by Bruno Pelletier, famed singer from Quebec.

Date: April 11, 2018

Spotlights

Professor Dosinda Alvite leading a class

Learn why Dosinda Alvite is a "master craftsman" of teaching

Students in Professor Dosinda Alvite’s classes learn through community, engagement — and lots of creativity.

Overcoming doubt

Writing, illustrating, and self-publishing a book involves dozens of opportunities to learn something new.

Making an “Us” out of “Them”

Business culture consultant Laura Kriska ’87 has built a life diving deep into other cultures and bridging the gaps between worlds.

Tejido de Voces rehearsal (photo by Ron Abram)

Building Bridges: Ron Abram, Collaboration and Tejido de Voces

The importance of art - especially in a world divided by COVID, politics, and distance - is a tangible thing.

Where We Go

Wide open possibilities

When Tima Kaba ’19 returned from a post-graduate fellowship in Tanzania, she was unemployed and uncertain of the future. Today, she is in her dream job.

Where We Go

Catalonia and the Culinary Arts

An internship at the Smithsonian sparked a fascination that took Josi Miller ’20 to Palamós, Spain — and beyond.

Denison students with an Arab-American family

How We Learn

Learning by listening

An Arabic class connects students with a local Arab-American community, providing opportunities to learn language and culture outside the classroom.

What's Happening

Denison launches the most ambitious campaign in its history

Announcing Knobel Hall and the King Center for Data and Innovation

AI in academia: Denison’s AI progress attracts higher education peers

What's Happening

2025

2023

2019

2018

Spotlights

Learn why Dosinda Alvite is a "master craftsman" of teaching

Overcoming doubt

Making an “Us” out of “Them”

Building Bridges: Ron Abram, Collaboration and Tejido de Voces

Wide open possibilities

Catalonia and the Culinary Arts

Learning by listening

What's Happening

Denison professors publish linguistics research

Prof. Kirk Combe launches blog about culture

Flavors of the Globe lunch September 2019!