Commencement 2013

Among 2013 Ph.D. graduates were Ariane Ngabeu (pictured), Leslie Harkema, Alison Carberry and Peter Mahoney. Ngabeu directs Middlebury College’s  C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in Cameroon. Harkema is Assistant Professor of Spanish, Yale University; Carberry, Lecturer in Spanish at Boston University; and Mahoney, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Stonehill College.

BU’s new Study Abroad program in Rio de Janeiro got off to a great start this summer

Romance Studies Honors Best Essays

At our end-of-year-party, a number of graduate students were awarded essay prizes in Spanish and French.  Spanish essay prizes went to Vasileios Ioannou, Aura Dovidjenko, Adel Faitaninho, and Gerry Dunn, and French essay prizes to Sophia Mizouni and Isadora Nicholas. In “Mudarra González, un héroe castellano,” Vasileios Ioannou brings to the fore the problem of […]

Professor Adela Pineda: New Perspectives on the Mexican Revolution

Prof. Adela Pineda of B.U., Prof. Jaime Marroquín of George Washington University, and Magdalena Mieri have co-edited an important book, Open Borders to a Revolution, offering new perspectives on the immediate and long-lasting effects of the Mexican Revolution in the United States in such spheres as diplomacy, politics, and intellectual thought. Prof. Pineda contributed an […]

Adel Faitaninho wins Department’s first Teaching Award for Portuguese

Adel Faitaninho has been awarded the Department’s first TF Teaching Award for Portuguese. Adel, a doctoral student in the Hispanic Language and Literature program,  taught LP 123 (Intensive First Year Portuguese) this Spring. She participated last summer in our Department’s StarTalk program –a professional development program for instructors of Portuguese– and will do so again […]