GCWS Graduate Student Conference
Graduate students in all areas of study are invited to submit their abstracts or synopses of in-progress scholarly papers, dissertation or thesis chapters, article drafts, or in-progress film/mixed media works. Proposals may come in the form of papers, films, art, performance, visual art, or alternate forms not listed above. This conference invites graduate student scholars, […]
Catalina Rodríguez Awarded Professorship
Assistant Professor of Spanish Catalina Rodríguez has been awarded the Wetherill-Bloom career Development Professorship in the Humanities by Boston University. Congratulations to Prof. Rodríguez! Catalina Rodríguez is a scholar of Latin American literature and culture from the 19th century forward, whose writings focus on gender and sexuality studies, women’s literature, theories of authorship, ecofeminism, and […]
Ubelaker Andrade Publishes Translation
Max Ubelaker Andrade, a graduate of the department’s doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, just published a new translation with punctum books titled boy says. It is a bilingual Spanish / English edition of Néstor Ponce’s book of poetry, Vos es, which plays with themes of authorship, identity, and influence while publicly offering a kind of […]
57th International Congress of Americanists
We are excited to announce that the upcoming 57th International Congress of Americanists (ICA) will take place on June 30 – July 4, 2025, in Novi Sad, Serbia. More information about the Congress can be found here: https://ica2025.uns.ac.rs/ica2025-eng/. If you have any questions, please get in touch with this year’s organizers at ica2025@uns.ac.rs. Deadline to submit individual […]
Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa – Europe-Africa Relations in the 19th & 20th Centuries
CADERNOS DO ARQUIVO MUNICIPAL ISSUE 24 The call for articles for the thematic dossier “Colonising and decolonising: Europe-Africa relations in the 19th and 20th centuries” is open until December 31, 2024. Coordination: Isabel Castro Henriques (University of Lisbon, Portugal) This dossier aims to reflect on European colonialism in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, […]
Autréaux Gives Interview
Patrick Autréaux, Writer in Residence at the BU Romance Studies Department, recently gave an interview on the occasion of the Mexican translation of his book Pussyboy (Canta Mares, Mexico). His interview was on the topic, “Writing at the border : literature and sexuality,” at El Colegio de Mexico (ColMex) with Melina Balcazar and Laure Sofia […]
Queerealities in Latin America and Spain Film Festival
Join us for screenings & conversations about four films on sexual diversity from Peru, Brazil, Argentina, and Spain. Free & Open to the Public! All films will be screened with English subtitles Coffee & Empanadas Served Retablo (Álvaro Delgado Aparicio, Perú, 2017) Friday, September 20, 2024 • 4 PM Boston University Photonics Center, 8 St. […]
Alumna Balabarca Promoted
Dr. Lisette Balabarca, who recieved her PhD in Hispanic Language & Literatures from our department in 2006, has recently been promoted to Professor of Spanish at Siena College, as of September 1, 2024. Previously, Dr. Balabarca was an Assoc. Professor of Spanish at Siena College. Congratulations!
2024 French Film Festival Schedule
The Albertine Cinémathèque Film Festival returns to Boston University in 2024! All screenings are free and open to the public. The festival presents a mixture of classic and contemporary films from France and the Francophone world. The Beast / La Bête (2023) Wednesday, Sep. 25 @ 6pm – PHO 206 The Beast is a […]
Huckle Publishes Translation
Nicholas Huckle, Master Lecturer in French, has recently completed the translation of Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images, by Jérémie Koering. From the publisher: “Eating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have swallowed down frescoes, icons, engravings, eucharistic hosts stamped with images, […]