CUNY Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature
CUNY graduate students announce the annual Graduate Conference hosted by the MA/PhD Program in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. This conference will be held in New York City on November 15th, 2024. Our call for papers includes guidelines and instructions for submission. We are very excited to announce that Alessandro Giammei of Yale […]
RS Recognizes 4 Graduate Students for Excellence in Teaching
The Romance Studies Department is please to announce the 2024 recipients of our Award for Teaching Excellence, given each year to a select few of our teaching fellows. French Fred Lafortune Karaleigh Saar Spanish Poliana Alarcón Bustos José Quispe
Carberry Wins Teaching Award
Congratulations to Alison Carberry, Master Lecturer in Spanish, for winning the 2024 Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching! The award recognizes a CAS faculty member who exemplifies deep and broad commitment, skill, effectiveness, impact, and leadership in teaching. Great work, Alison!
Bailey Presents Paper in Paris
French graduate student Tiffany Bailey recently presented a paper at a conference on Black Studies in Paris. She tells us: “I participated in the “Black Studies x French Studies” Colloquium in Paris hosted by the AfroFrancospheres Project at Columbia University in partnership with the inter-university research, educational, and public programming initiative, BlackFranceNoire. For the workshop […]
RS Wins Terriers Trek Through Boston
The Romance Studies Team won the Terriers Trek through Boston Challenge! Terriers Trek Through Boston is a team-based fitness challenge for members of the BU community. The members of the Romance Studies team were: Angelica Avcikurt, Captain Laura Brusetti Mcginn Maria Datel Carmen Torres Perez Pau Canigueral Batllosera Philip Noonan Veronica Rodriguez Ballesteros Romance Studies […]
Savo Publishes Book
Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority, by Dr. Anita Savo, has just been published with the University of Toronto Press (May 2024). The book shows how the medieval Castilian writer Juan Manuel convinced readers of his role as an individual author, even though he worked in a collaborative manuscript culture. Dr. Savo […]
Webb Wins Susan K. Jackson Award
Lillie Webb, Lecturer in French, has been named the faculty recipient of the Susan K. Jackson award for 2024. The award, which honors those who create and nurture community in the College of Arts & Sciences, was established after the passing of Susan Jackson, a longtime faculty member and senior associate dean in CAS, in […]
Bailey & Hernandez Honored by GRS
We are proud to announce that two of our Teaching Fellows have been awarded by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences! Tiffany Bailey, a PhD student in French Languages & Literatures, has received the GRS Teaching Fellow Award for the Department of Romance Studies. Rosana Hernandez Nieto, a PhD student in our Hispanic Literatures […]
Cupic Selected as Pardee Center Summer Fellow
Tijana Cupic, one of our PhD students in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has been selected as a 2024 Summer Fellow for the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. From the Pardee Center website: “Tijana will explore the potential of storytelling in shaping immigration policies related to Central American immigrants residing […]
Mayron Awarded Fulbright
Recent alumna Laura Mayron (RS ’23) has been awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Award for the 2024-2025 academic year. Laura will be based at the Centro Federico García Lorca in Granada, Spain, where she will be researching and writing her first academic monograph. Her research explores the queer body in Lorca’s poetry, prose, and theater, […]