Spring 2027 RS Courses
Spring 2027 course schedules are now available! We offer engaging coursework in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish language, literature, and cinema for you to choose from. French Courses Spring 2027 Italian Courses Spring 2027 Portuguese Courses Spring 2027 Spanish Courses Spring 2027 The above course flyers do NOT include information on the initial sequence of […]
2026 French Film Festival Schedule
French Film Festival Schedule The French film festival returns to BU in Fal 2027! Check out our slate of fantastic French and Francophone films. L’Histoire de Souleymane (Souleymane’s Story) 2024, 94 minutes Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026 at 6pm | Photonics 206 (8 St. Mary’s Street) The film follows Souleymane, a Guinean undocumented immigrant who seeks […]
2026 French Film Festival Schedule Announced!
The schedule has been announced for the 2026 Fall French Film Festival! Wed, Oct 7 at 6pm: L’Histoire de Souleymane (Souleymane’s Story) Wed, Oct 14 at 6pm: L’Attachement (The Ties That Bind Us) Thurs, Oct 22 at 5pm: Lecture by Laure Barillas Wed, Oct 28 at 6pm: Arco
NeMLA 2026
We invite you to submit an abstract to NeMLA 2026. The deadline is September 30. If you’ve already submitted, fantastic — please share this with your colleagues and graduate students. Choose from over 430 sessions that are in-person, remote, or hybrid. Filter the list by subject area, keyword, and modality. The NeMLA Summer 2025 Newsletter (PDF) is available and lists convention […]
Fall 2025 French Film Festival Schedule Announced!
The Albertine French Film Festival will be returning to BU this fall with a lineup of six films, a mix of classic and contemporary! The theme for this year’s festival is, ‘Tales of Survival.’ The full schedule is available now. The Albertine French Film festival is organized by doctoral students in French Language & Literature […]
Sembe to Teach at Northeastern
Karina Sembe, who graduated this past May with a PhD in Hispanic Language & Literatures from our Department, will be headed to Northeastern University this fall, as a Postdoctoral Associate. Dr. Sembe will teach Writing and Rhetoric at Northeastern’s Department of English. Congratulations, Karina!
Earls Studies at the Institut d’Avignon
Alex Earls, one of our French Language and Literature doctoral students, participated this summer in the Institut d’Avignon program, which was made possible by funding from the Ernest A. Jackson fund. Alex tells us about their experience: “Over my time in Avignon I got to take two courses, one on memory in francophone literature and […]
Maurer Receives American Archivists Award
Christopher Maurer (Boston University), Andrew A. Anderson (University of Virginia), and Melissa Dinverno (Indiana University – Bloomington) are the 2025 recipients of the Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) for their work on Memory in Motion: Lorca and the Archive / Memoria en movimiento: Lorca […]
Alumnus Promoted to Full Professor
Congratulations to our alumnus Enrique Bernales Albites, who has been promoted to Professor in the World Languages & Cultures Department at the University of Northern Colorado! Bernales Albites is a 2009 graduate of our Hispanic Language & Literatures program.
Congratulations to 2 Summer Graduates!
Congratulations to Tijana Cupic and Gonzalo Carretero Martínez, who both successfully defended their dissertations this summer! Tijana’s dissertation is titled, Hidden Solidarities: Transnational Affect in Mexican/Latinx and Post-Yugoslav Migration Literature. From her abstract: “This dissertation explores the affective politics of migration through a comparative literary approach to two immigration flows: migrations from Mexico to the […]