On March 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order naming English as the official language of the United States — as if slapping a linguistic Band-Aid on centuries of cultural complexity could...

Tulane University is expanding its foreign language program, with new languages being introduced in the coming semester’s course catalog.  Tulane already boasts a robust array of language offerings,...

We often view storytelling as chiefly character-oriented, where worldbuilding serves as a figurative stage upon which characters and their narrative roles are emphasized. In reality, worldbuilding is not...

My name, “Apoorva,” means "unique" in Malayalam, my native language. When my parents named me, they didn’t just choose a name but an aspiration. In my family, my name, as well as those of my siblings,...

Five days a week, Lisa Vigran, an adjunct lecturer at Tulane University, teaches Spanish to college students searching for a cultural and social escape into a different world. Her days consist of planning...

Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez has a mission to make his entire country bilingual in English and Spanish. To do so, he has enlisted the help of Tulane University and several other...