Quinteiro Pires Presents at MLA
Francisco Quinteiro Pires, a visiting professor at BU Romance Studies, recently presented a paper at the annual Modern Language Association convention titled “Sensing the ‘Discovery’: The First Contacts According to Pero Vaz de Caminha and Davi Kopenawa.” From his abstract: “This presentation explores the cultural frictions in the first contacts between Amerindians and non-indigenous people […]
6th Annual Conference on Second-Language Learning & Disabilities
Join us for our upcoming conference dedicated to fostering inclusive classrooms. Our primary focus is to empower educators in the field of second language learning to develop a curriculum that embraces the diversity among students, ensuring their representation and fostering a classroom environment rooted in tolerance and respect. The Department of Romance Studies at Boston […]
Calderón Villón Publishes Article
Estef Calderón Villón has published an article titled, “The Erotics of Play: An Asexual Reading of the Poetic Work of José María Eguren” in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, in their Fall 2023 issue, “Queer in Latin America (and Beyond).” In December, Calderón Villón participated in a panel that was held on the occasion […]
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 […]