Congratulations 2019 Romance Studies Graduates!
The Romance Studies Department proudly honored our 2019 graduating class at our departmental commencement ceremony this morning. Congratulations to each and every one of you!
Speaking to our new graduates, Christopher Maurer, Chair ad interim, told them:
“Each of you, whether by studying the science of language–Linguistics– or by studying particular languages, sometimes more than one–and combining that study with other fields, have discovered [that], ‘Between word and object, between the thing and its name, falls a shadow’– a shadow inhabited by translation. Your years at Boston University may have taught you –mine have– that every act in life involves translation, –we translate the world and the world finds time to translate us before WE ourselves become shadows.”
Degree Candidates
Doctor of Philosophy in French Language and Literature
Didem Alkan – Dissertation Title: Tout cela pour dire: la quête du transmissible dans l’écriture de l’indicible et le cinéma de l’inmontrable.
Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Language and Literatures
Amir Brandon Effat – Dissertation Title: On the Edge: Liminal Spaces in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós
Christopher Gerald Eldrett – Dissertation Title: Walt Whitman’s Prophetic Voice in Hispanic Lyric Poetry: León Felipe, Federico García Lorca, and César Vallejo
Nadia Catherine Mann – Dissertation Title: Intermedia Strategies of Narrative Resistance: Cartucho, La Noche de Tlatelolco, and Representations of Ayotzinapa
Franca Roibal – Dissertation Title: Un saludo cordial: Intellectual Musical Theater and Political Voice of the Uruguayan Murga
Bachelor of Arts in French Studies
Elizabeth Leighton Botelho – Magna Cum Laude
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish
Skovran Sutton Cunningham – Cum Laude
Isavel McGough Tomasino
Olivia McKellar Summa – Cum Laude
Ioana Alexandra Moldovan – Magna Cum Laude
Zachary Reed Yousse Saltzman – Cum Laude
Elena Corrine Thompson
Rachel Josefine Zank
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish & Linguistics
Roxanne K. Segina – Magna Cum Laude