Anita Savo to Join BU Romance Studies
BU Romance Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Anita J. Savo to our professorial ranks! Dr. Savo will take a position as an Assistant Professor of Spanish, with a focus on Early Spanish Literature, beginning in the fall 2020 semester.
This will be a reunion for Boston University and Dr. Savo, as she completed her bachelor’s degree at BU, earning her BA in Spanish in 2008 (concurrently with a BS in Modern Foreign Language Education). After graduating from BU summa cum laude, Savo studied at Yale University. She earned her doctorate from Yale in 2014, writing her dissertation on Porque fago librs’: Authorship & Authority in the Works of Juan Manuel.
Since graduating with her doctorate, Savo has worked as an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Colby College, in Maine. Savo’s research interests focus on literatures and cultures of medieval Iberia, vernacular authorship, material culture studies, and multiconfessional Iberia.