Harvard University. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

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The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard offers undergraduate and graduate courses in the French and Francophone, Italian, Portuguese and Luso- Brazilian, Spanish and Latin American literary traditions.

Programs in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese language and literature date back many years at Harvard. In 1816, the Smith Chair was created. Over the years, its incumbents have included George Ticknor, Henry Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Jeremiah Ford, Jean-Joseph Seznec, Amado Alonso, Herbert Dieckmann, and Raimundo Lida. The current home of the Department of Romance Languages, Boylston Hall, was originally built in 1857 with a bequest from Ward Nicholson Boylston.

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creatorOf Records of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Papers of Marcel Auguste Françon, 1928-1979 (inclusive). Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Papers of Rudolph Altrocchi, 1907-1946 (inclusive). Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Papers of Irving Babbitt, 1855, 1881-1965 bulk dates, 1908-1935. Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Student folders (graduate) and faculty folders Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Records relating to faculty members Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Murray Anthony Potter papers Houghton Library
referencedIn Papers of Charles Henry Conrad Wright Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Harvard University Department of Romance Languages and Literatures archived web site Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Romance Languages, Literature and Philology, 1937-1979. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Portuguese, 1944-1950. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Italian, 1927, 1941-1958, undated. Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Student folders (undergraduate) Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Records of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures: graduate student files Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Papers of Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, 1896-1958 (inclusive). Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Papers of Charles Eliot Norton, 1859-1907 (inclusive). Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Harry Levin papers Houghton Library
referencedIn Papers of Charles Eliot Norton Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Records of the Department of Romance Languages Harvard University Archives.
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associatedWith Altrocchi, Rudolph, 1882-1952. person
associatedWith Babbitt, Irving, 1865-1933. person
associatedWith Ford, J. D. M. (Jeremiah Denis Matthias), 1873-1958. person
associatedWith Françon, Marcel, 1900- person
hierarchical-child Harvard University corporateBody
correspondedWith Levin, Harry, 1912-1994 person
associatedWith Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908. person
associatedWith Potter, Murray Anthony, 1871-1915. person
associatedWith Whitten, A. F. person
associatedWith Wright, C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad), 1869-1957. person
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