Author: Christopher H Maurer

Hugo García Manríquez

Mexican poet and translator Hugo García Manríquez will give a talk on Tuesday, February 10 on his translation into Spanish of Paterson, by William Carlos Williams. Open to the public and sponsored by the Geddes Lecture Fund and the Department of Romance Studies, the talk will take place in LS 306 (“Translation”), at 12:30 in […]

Victoria Livingstone Translation

Victoria Livingstone, who is back from a Fulbright Fellowship in Brazil, has published a trilingual (Maya K’iche’, Spanish and English) edition of Song from the Underworld by Pablo García, winner of the 2007 B’atz’ Prize for Indigenous Literature in Guatemala. Published by Achiote Press, the book draws on images and rhythms of traditional Maya poetry […]

Salsa at MaFLA

Romance Studies made a splash at the annual Massachusetts Foreign Language Association conference in Sturbridge October 25-27. The conference brought together over 600 K-16 language instructors from MA, CT, NH, RI and upstate NY. RS faculty and graduate students offered 3 of the 85 sessions, and all were well attended.  Célia Bianconi and Sue Griffin […]

Youth and Migration Dakar/Paris Summer 2013 Program

Prof. Odile Cazenave (BU Romance Studies) and Lionel Ruffel (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Paris VIII) will direct a new Study Abroad program in Summer 2013. Paris-Dakar, Dakar-Paris. These two cities are linked by the famous ‘Paris-Dakar’ Rally. But the association also allows us to think about  several centuries of history, colonization, and shifts in […]

Ibero-American Consuls Launch Film Festival

The 17th annual Boston Ibero-American Film Festival, hosted this year by the Department of Romance Studies, Voces Hispánicas, and the Aula Cervantes at Boston University, with generous funding from Sovereign / Santander, got off to a good start on October 2 with a film screening and a reception given by the Consulate of Colombia. Consuls […]

Iffland honored by Salvadoran-American Community

Professor Jim Iffland was among several individuals honored recently by the Salvadoran-American community as part of the first-ever celebration of the Salvadoran presence in New England. Most recently, Iffland has been engaged with that community in his role as coordinator of the “Voces Hispánicas/Hispanic Voices” initiative, which is funded by the Santander Universities Global Division.  […]

Exporting Brazilian Literature

Literary commerce! In Fair Observer, Romance Studies Teaching Fellow Victoria Livingstone writes on recent efforts by the Brazilian government–in particular, translation subsidies and literary prizes– to export Brazilian literature.

News of Recent PhD Graduates

Two students in Hispanic Studies successfully defended their doctoral dissertations in September 2012.  Peter J. Mahoney submitted  “The Seven Knights of Lara: Annotated Translation and Study,” (directed by Irene Zaderenko), the first translation into English of this medieval Spanish text. Leslie J. Harkema wrote on “Youth as Ideoclasm: Miguel de Unamuno and ‘La Joven Literatura'” […]

STARTALKING in Portuguese

Célia Bianconi and Sue Griffin ran a highly successful STARTALK Portuguese Teacher Training program this summer for sixteen teachers of Portuguese from public and private schools, colleges and universities. STARTALK–a great way to “start talking”–is a natonal Presidential initiative to fund summer programs in critical languages. Boston University’s STARTALK program addressed a critical lack of […]