Department of Romance Studies

If you are looking for information about Brandeis University's reponse to the COVID-19 pandemic, please visit the Brandeis COVID-19 Response page.

You will find specific information about coming to campus by following this link: Return to Campus Checklist.

You can always ask Katie, the ROMS Academic Administrator, by email at kdickin@brandeis.edu, in person by visiting her office in Shiffman 108, or by phone at 781-736-3232. But first you might check the FAQs below in case one of them answers your question.

You can access the academic calendar as a list on the Registrar's website or in Google calendar.

Even better, you can subscribe to the academic calendar and see it superimposed on your own calendar by following these instructions.

You may subscribe to the ROMS calendar via Google Calendar or you can access our calendar from a web browser. (You must be signed into your Brandeis Gmail account.)

The Hiatt Career Center has provided some tools, resources and partners to help advise students about their career pathways.

Faculty Liaison Program

Each member of the Hiatt Career Center staff serves as a liaison to academic departments and programs to share mutually beneficial information, referrals, programming and services. The Hiatt Career Center Liaison for Romance Studies is Jane Pavese, who can be contacted at jpavese@brandeis.edu or 781-736-3624.

Contact Facilities at 781-736-4385.

Call Media Services at 781-736-4632 or send an email to Tim O'Neil.

Markers, chalk, pens, letterhead, envelopes, etc. are located in Shiffman 107 on the third, fourth, and fifth shelves of the metal bookshelf on the right-hand wall as you enter the office. If you notice that supplies are running low, please let someone in the office know.

If you need to reserve a classroom, please email Ellen or Katie with your request. Please make sure you plan meeting or event times according to the block system and specify in your email exactly why you need the room reservation and approximately how many people will attend.

It is important that a faculty member be present for film showings. Serious security issues may arise when students are left alone in Shiffman at night or even during the day.

Brandeis UNET Account tools will allow you to establish a U-Net account (which is also your email address) as well as change your password, access your email, register your computer on the Brandeis network, etc.

Go to the Changing your Brandeis Password page to change your email password.

You will need to configure the program that you are using to connect to the Brandeis server by getting the incoming and outgoing address. You will find all the information you will need on the LTS Gmail page. We recommend using Mozilla Thunderbird as your e-mail program. Download the latest version, then use these instructions to configure it to the Brandeis server.

Just log in with your email UNET ID (which is everything before the @ symbol of your Brandeis email address). If you wish to install Thunderbird on your home computer: first, download the most recent version of Thunderbird and then follow these instructions.

Please see the instructions for your phone including voicemail setup.

If you're off-campus:

1. Dial 781-736-2222

2. Press *

3. Enter your 5-digit extension number when prompted for "your ID"

4. Press #

5. Enter your password, followed by #, when prompted for "password"

New faculty should fill out this form set up their office telephone and voicemail.

Check all connections. Take them out. Reinsert them. Also see the Using your Brandeis Phone page. If that doesn't work, email VOICE.

You can reset your voicemail password on the Configure Your Brandeis Phone page.

Extra paper is under the table to the right of the copier. If the copier is jammed, try to unjam it by following the steps on the screen. If that doesn't work, ask Ellen or student workers in Shiffman 107/108; or if all else fails, call 781-736-4500 (Procurement) and report the problem. You will need our Shiffman 121 Konica Copier ID: CB096.

You may contact the LTS help desk at 781-736-4357 (781-736-HELP). But, you should also help by performing simple, regular maintenance on your computer.

• For PC users, regular defragmenting and disk cleanup (found under system tools) should be done monthly.

• For both PC and Mac users: make sure to schedule your computer to receive automatic Microsoft, Firefox, and other application updates. And, accept them when you receive them.

• Staff / Faculty can install the latest version of Office on any University-owned computer by downloading the installer from the University On the Hub Store (Software instructions).

Read the Romance Studies printing basics document (PDF). Or, read more generalized instructions on the LTS site.

Email Dave Wedaman every semester.

The technical support team will help them—it is not your responsibility to be the technician! Direct them to LATTE help, or have them call the Help Desk at 781-736-4357.

Yes, but large copy jobs should go through the copy center.

For individual articles, syllabi and other small jobs, during the academic year, we have student workers who can help.

Complete a ROMS Student Worker Job Request Form. Please give us as much notice as possible.

If you have an unexpected, last-minute job, please feel free to ask if we might be able to finish your job. If there are no other high priority jobs waiting for us, we'll do our best to help you out. We will complete most projects within 3 to 4 business days.

Yes, however please do not ask them directly. First, ask Katie or Ellen. They will tell you whether or not your request is appropriate for student workers and whether or not they have other higher priority work to complete. You may also submit a Student Worker Job Request Form and Katie or Ellen will get back to you if for some reason, the request cannot be completed.