RS Celebrates Graduates, Award Winners
The Romance Studies Department celebrated our 2025 graduates and undergraduate award winners at our departmental convocation on Friday, May 16! PhD Graduates Doctor of Philosophy in French Language & Literature Khadija El Karfi Joss Dissertation: Excavating the Silenced History of Slavery and Race in Morocco Kelly Elizabeth Keenan Dissertation: Rewriting Body and Word: Gender and […]
Bryzys Wins the Nancy F. Marino Prize
At the recent 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Wiktoria Bryzys’s paper, titled “Valencia del Cid y Balansiya de al-Waqqašī: Heterotopía en la Estoria de España,” was selected as the winner of the fifth annual Nancy F. Marino Prize for Best Essay in Hispanomedieval Studies, announced by La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, […]
BUCH Honors 4 RS Students
Four students from Romance Studies were recently honored by the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH) in a ceremony held at the Metcalf Trustee Center Ballroom on May 13. Graduate Khadija Joss, a PhD student in French, received the Helen G. Allen Humanities Award, and The Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial Award. Íñigo […]
Cazenave & Avcikurt Promoted
The Romance Studies Department is pleased to announce the promotion of two of our faculty members! Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, will be promoted to Associate Professor of French. Angelica Avcikurt, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, will be promoted to Master Lecturer in Spanish. Congratulations to both on their well deserved promotions!
Joss Successfully Defends Dissertation
Congratulations to Khadija El Karfi Joss, who successfully defended her dissertation on May 14! Khadija will graduate this August with a PhD in French Language & Literature. Khadija’s dissertation is titled, Excavating the Silenced History of Slavery & Race in Morocco. From her abstract: “Excavating the Silenced History of Slavery and Race in Morocco examines how […]
Burgon Researches in Paris
One of our French PhD students, Haleigh Burgon, recently travelled to France to conduct research on Agnès Varda. She tells us: “Thanks to the Jackson Fund Fellowship, I was able to take a quick research trip to Paris last week. I saw the temporary exhibit Le Paris d’Agnès Varda de-ci, de-là, which focused on the […]
Bryzys & Carretero Martinez Present at International Conference on Medieval Studies
Gonzalo Carretero Martínez and Wiktoria Bryzys both presented papers at the recent 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI (8-10 May 2025).
RS Department Honors TFs
On Friday, May 9, the Romance Studies Department honored three of our teaching fellows with our annual Award for Teaching Excellence. The 2025 winners of the award are: French Haleigh Burgon Spanish Fernanda Alves dos Santos Íñigo Huércanos Esparza Congratulations to all three!
Voc UM Call for Papers
Please find here the Call for Paper for the 12th edition of Colloque VocUM, which will be held in person on November 13th and 14th 2025, at the Université de Montréal, with the theme Play on Words, Words on Play. VocUM is a conference organized annually by students of Université de Montréal from different fields of study relating to language […]
Cazenave Wins Award for Graduate Education
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Cazenave for winning the 2025 CAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education! From the citation read at the presentation of the award on April 30: Because of her passion for her subjects and her wholehearted support of her students as both academics and human beings, Jennifer Cazenave’s graduate students gain […]