Author: Deanna Wong

Students and Professor Discuss the Boston Marathon Bombing

Professor Nancy Harrowitz, who is offering a course this semester on the Holocaust “as historical reality, metaphor, and generative force in literature,” wrote last week to her students in LX281/RN385 Holocaust Literature and Film, who were deeply affected by the Boston Marathon bombing. Together, they pondered the meaning of the recent events in relation to […]

Sophia Mizouni wins the Humanities and Social Science award

Sophia Mizouni wins the Humanities and Social Science award at Scholars Day, April 2, 2013, for her poster presentation: “Haussmann’s Paris Under Glass: The Greenhouse in Zola’s La Curée.” She must now give a five-minute presentation of her work in order to compete for two additional awards.  Sophia also won the Outstanding Teaching Fellow for […]

Victoria Livingstone wins Fulbright Fellowship

Victoria Livingstone has won a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Brazil in AY 2013-2014.  The fellowship will allow her to work on her dissertation, which studies certain aspects of the translation and reception of Brazilian and Spanish American narrative in the U.S.  Victoria’s doctoral dissertation is co-directed by Professors Adela E. Pineda and Christopher Maurer.  […]

CAS Linguistics Program presents Lisa Matthewson

Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia,”Cross-linguistic semantics: Methods and results”Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 5:30 pmBU – KCB room 106Abstract:With the majority of the world’s languages in danger of extinction, it is important to gather information about cross-linguistic diversity, while there is still time. In this talk I present a ‘how-to’ guide to conducting cross-linguistic […]

Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond

Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and BeyondAn interdisciplinary conference in medieval studies28 February & 1 March 2013Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 200This 2-day international conference brings together scholars in literature, theology, law, art history, history, and musicology, to examine the practices and values attached to the human voice in medieval cultures. The topic […]