Sophia Mizouni Honored For Teaching Excellence
In the photograph (L to R): Odile Cazenave (head of the French section), Sophia Mizouni, and W. Jeffrey Hughes, Associate Dean of the Graduate School.
Graduate student Sophia Mizouni was recognized by the Graduate School as an Outstanding Teaching Fellow for the Academic Year 2011-2012 and honored for teaching excellence at an end-of-semester GRS reception. Mizouni, who earned a degree in Landscape Architecture before embarking on her career in French language and literature, is researching depictions of the Parisian landscape in the 19th-century novel.
Teaching Fellows are a vital part of BU’s instructional program, CAS Dean Virginia Sapiro told the award-winning graduate students, “and you are the crème de la crème among Teaching Fellows.”
Mizouni’s coordinator Shelagh Hadley had high praise for her work. “A gifted teacher, Sophia has taught second year French at a consistently high level, engaging her students in innovative, creative ways. She makes learning and using the French language interesting and rewarding… Her expectations are high, and her students respond positively… Open to different techniques and approaches and always willing to share her own classroom methodology, Sophia is a hardworking, generous, and imaginative colleague.”
News bulletin: Marta Villar and Alexis Ortiz
Marta Villar on “Soldados de Salamina”
Lecturer Marta Villar, a BU PhD, gave a talk at NECFL in Baltimore: Music & Image in “Soldados de Salamina,” showing how “feature-length film in the language classroom is a powerful tool for learning a language.” The talk analyzed a scene from the film, exploring “how music can actively shape the interpretation of camera shots” and “the meaning embedded in the non-verbal elements in the film.”
Alexis Ortiz and Roman Ingarden
Graduate student Alexis Ortiz is the author of “Las cualidades metafísicas en el pensamiento de Roman Ingarden” in Hermenéutica y recepción de la obra de arte literaria, Gloria Vergara/Ada Aurora Sánchez (coordinadoras). México: Praxis, 2011. pp 67-91.
Spring 2012 Graduate Student Presentations
No fewer than five members and graduates of the Department read papers at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-21. Our graduate Megan Gibbons, an Assistant Professor at Glenville State College, spoke on “Invisible-Mistress and Wife-Murder: Ana Caro’s Use of Parody in El conde Partinuplés.” Graduate student Alison Carberry gave a paper on “Doña Jimena to Doña Lambra, from Epic to romancero” and Peter Mahoney, one titled “Under the Microscope: A Close Rereading of the Siete Infantes de Lara.” Graduate student Carolina Castillo Larrea addressed “La función del autor-narrador en la novela sentimental española de los siglos XV y XVI.” Prof. Irene Zaderenko, who is directing the doctoral dissertations of Carberry, Castillo Larrea, and Mahoney, explored “La Batalla de las Navas de Tolosa en la Estoria de Espanna alfonsí.”
Reading papers at the Carolina Conference on Romance Studies, organized this year and next by BU graduate Maria C. Fellie, now a UNC grad student, were Franca Roibal Fernández (““El bien contra el mal: cambio de perspectiva en Celda 211”) and Adel Faitaninho (“La realidad irreal que vincula los continentes: el realismo mágico en la literatura rusa y latinoamericana”). Prof. Christopher Maurer gave the Spanish keynote address: ““Snapshots, Proofs, and Lithographs: Some Spanish Poets in New York.”
Among other graduate students reading papers this year were Alexis Ortiz León, at the XVII Congreso de Literatura Mexicana (“La reina del sur y Breaking Bad: el narcotráfico como fuente de entretenimiento”) and Jeannette Ariane Ngabeu, at the African Literature Association (“Conflit des altérités: Africa in Third World Resistance”).
Rosanna Warren’s new book of poems featured on BU Today
Rosanna Warren’s new book of poems, Ghost in a Red Hat, is featured on BU Today.
French House News
On Tuesday September 20th, Liliane Duséwoir, Faculty Advisor to the French House, organized a reception to welcome the Resident Director in Paris, Renee Pontbriand who, along with the Assistant Director at Study Abroad, Leilani Olson, held an info session about our Paris and Grenoble programs. Five Faculty members, 6 returning students and more than 50 students wishing to study in France mingled in the beautiful salon of La Maison and sampled a select assortment of French cheeses. Two voice major students, Joanna Lynn-Jacobs and Suzanne Karpov, delighted the audience with songs by Edith Piaf and an aria by Gabriel Fauré. They received a resounding round of applause and a modest gift from Study Abroad as a token of our appreciation.
Launch of new Department of Romance Studies website
The new Department of Romance Studies website officially launches today. Individual instructor office hours for Fall 2011 will be available shortly on faculty/staff profile pages.
Local newspaper in Brugos, Spain features BU students
Local newspaper in Brugos, Spain features BU students. Download article.
New Appointments for Simal, Gibbons, and Castillo Larrea
The Department of Romance Studies congratulates three of its graduate students: Megan Gibbons, who has been appointed Assistant Professor of Spanish at Glenville State College, in Glenville, West Virginia. Monica Simal will be Assistant Professor of Spanish at Providence College (Rhode Island), and Carolina Castillo Larrea has been appointed Lecturer at the University of Southern California.
Megan Gibbons’s interests include the Golden Age, theater, and gender studies, and she is in the final stages of a dissertation on 17th-century playright Ana Caro.
Monica Simal defended her dissertation in May 2011 on “The Writers of the ‘Mariel Generation’ and the Cuban Literacy Canon.”
For her dissertation, Carolina Castillo Larrea is preparing an edition of Juan de Segura’s Proceso de cartas de amores (1548)
Rosanna Warren Publishes a New Book of Poems
Rosanna Warren (photo Mike Minehan)
Rosanna Warren’s new book of poems, Ghost in a Red Hat (WW Norton, 2011) is reviewed in the June New York Review of Books by Dan Chiasson. Warren teaches in the French, English and Creative Writing programs.
International Conference at the University of Caen-Basse Normandie
Professor Costa is one of the organizers of an international conference at the University of Caen-Basse Normandie, entitled “La Folie du Temps/Time’s Eccentricities”.
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