Two RS Students Win BUCH Awards
Two Romance Studies students have been selected as winners for the annual BU Center for Humanities (BUCH) student awards! Karina Sembe, a PhD student in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has won a James J. Rallis and Alice M. Brennan graduate student award. Madison Keefer, an undergraduate Spanish major, has won an Edwin S. and Ruth M. […]
Datel wins IDEAL Award
The Department of Romance Studies is proud to announce that Master Lecturer in Spanish, María Datel, is a recipient of this year’s CAS IDEAL (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access Leadership) Award! According to the CAS website, “The CAS IDEAL is awarded annually to three CAS community members whose leadership advances the College’s strategic diversity, equity, […]
2024 RS Graduate Student Conference
The Romance Studies Graduate Students Conference, held on April 13th, was an enriching event that brought together emerging scholars representing a wide range of backgrounds and research interests from Boston University, Boston College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Virginia, and the University of Alcalá in Spain. Organized by Ph.D. students Gonzalo Carretero Martínez, Wiktoria Bryzys, and María […]
Lopez Presents at CILH
PhD studnet in Hispanic Language & Literatures Alejandro Lopez recently presented at the Congresos Internacionales de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos in Mexico. Alejandro tells us: “Participating in the CILH (Congresos Internacionales de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos) for the second time was just as enriching as my first. Each panel’s presentations were meticulously curated, ensuring that […]
Iozzia Publishes Article
Alberto Iozzia, Lecturer in Italian, has published an article titled, “Fast Zombies and Social Rights: The Case of Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City (1980).” The piece is available here: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/fc/article/id/5694/. From the abstract: In the tense atmosphere that preceded the May 1981 Italian referendums on abortion, Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City is released. Included in several ‘Best Zombie Movies’ […]
Jim Carter Publishes Article
Jim Carter, Lecturer in Italian, has published an article “The Guilty Spectator: Sexuality, Age, Crime and Dario Argento’s Deep Red (1975)” in the journal Film Criticism. It is open access and available here: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/fc/article/id/5697/ From the article’s abstract: This article performs a close reading of Dario Argento’s Deep Red (1975) together with a speculative reading of how the […]
BU Colloquium – Grad Conference on Women Art Collectors
PhD students from Boston University’s History of Art and Architecture Department are issuing a CFP for a colloquium focused on women art collectors. This event will provide an opportunity for graduate students working across a range of disciplines and time periods to contribute to the conversation about women collectors and their practices and contributions. Please […]
NeMLA 2025 Call for Session Proposals
Spanish Faculty Present at NeMLA
We are thrilled to highlight the participation of several colleagues from the Spanish section at the recent NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) conference held from March 7-10. Through engaging roundtables, panels, and workshops, our faculty members shared their expertise and contributed valuable insights to discussions on diverse topics in the field. Their involvement not only […]
Rachel Mesch Featured on Global Novel Podcast
Rachel Mesch has been featured on the Global Novel podcast, for an episode on Madame Bovary, a novel that she has recently taught for LF 860. The Global Novel Podcast surveys the narratology of world literature and the history of translation from antiquity to modernity through a critical lens and aims to make academic education […]