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 […]
Burgon Pens Review of Lesueur Book
Haleigh Burgon, a student in our French PhD program, has recently published a book review. Haleigh tells us: “I’m thrilled to share that my latest book review has just been published in the journal Nineteenth-Century French Studies! The volume I reviewed—Introduction à l’œuvre de Daniel Lesueur: “Conscience féminine élève la voix!” by Diana Holmes and […]
Wells Promoted to Full Professor
Courtney Wells, a 2010 PhD graduate of our French Language & Literature program, has been promoted to Professor of French, Francophone, and Italian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where he has taught since 2012. Congratulations, Dr. Wells!
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 […]