Author: Michael Williams

Clinger Presents at MLA

Braden Clinger, a PhD student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented part of his research on the uses of the Pombero figure in Paraguayan literature and cultural production at MLA, as part of a panel titled “Beyond Magical Realism: Revindicating the Irreal in Contemporary South America.” His presentation focused on the first novel […]

Boston College – Grad Conference

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Boston College is holding a graduate conference, “Memory & Violence: The Female Experience” that will take place in Chestnut Hill, MA on March 22, 2024 – March 23 2024. Please kindly circulate to your graduate students the attached call for papers. If you have any questions, please feel free to send an email at rll@bc.edu. […]

Anita Savo, Portraying Authorship

Prof. Anita Savo on Her Book Project, Portraying Authorship My book manuscript in progress, Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority, emerged from my dissertation research on Don Juan Manuel, a fourteenth-century Castilian nobleman, politician, soldier, and writer. Portraying Authorship tells the story of how Juan Manuel convincingly positioned himself as an author, […]

LS 575 Class Produces Audio Book

The fall 2023 LS 575 (Topics in Peninsular Literature) class taught by Professor Pau Cañigueral Batllosera has put together a group of audio recordings as a class project. Prof. Cañigueral Batllosera tells us: “My students collaboratively produced an audiobook imitating some of the short-story collections we read during the semester. Students wrote the text and recorded […]

Odile Cazenave Publishes on Boris Diop

Professor Odile Cazenave has published a piece in an homage volume to Boubacar Boris Diop’s oeuvre as the recipient of the 2023 Neustadt Literary Award. Her article appears in Un cercle autour de Murambi. Le livre des ossements, Boubacar Boris Diop. (Ed. Koulsy Lamko, CORA, Senegal). The article explores the importance of the postface Boubacar […]

Carretero Martínez Publishes Article

Gonzalo Carretero Martínez, a student in our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has published an article titled “El romance del último rey godo y el capitán cautivo del Quijote,” in the journal Abenámar. From the article’s abstract: “Cervantes used different literary models to compose his work, following the method of so-called “composite imitation”; […]

Bobroff Presents on Alternative Grading

On November 18, Maria Bobroff gave a presentation entitled “Adventures in Alternative Grading” at the ACTFL conference held in Chicago. She organized the presentation with Laura Florand, Senior Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Director of the French Language Program at Duke University. Together they shared how alternative grading, also known as ungrading, rewards […]

Journées de linguistique (JDL)

Les membres du comité organisateur des XXXVIIes Journées de linguistique (JDL), qui se tiendront les 6 et 7 mars 2024, vous invitent à soumettre une proposition de communication afin de participer à ce colloque étudiant. Le but des JDL est de permettre aux étudiants et étudiantes inscrit·e·s aux trois cycles de différentes universités de présenter […]

Boston Area Pedagogy Conference

The BAPC will be held in person at the Northeastern University Boston campus on Saturday, April 6th 2024. We are accepting proposals for paper presentations or panels related to, but not limited to, a variety of strands related to language teaching in the age of AI. For consideration, please complete and submit the proposal form […]

Boston College – Graduate Conference

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Boston College is holding a graduate conference, “Memory & Violence: The Female Experience” that will take place in Chestnut Hill, MA on March 22, 2024 – March 23 2024. Please kindly circulate to your graduate students the attached call for papers. If you have any questions, please feel free to send an email at rll@bc.edu […]