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 […]
Jennifer Cazenave Speaks on Lanzmann’s Shoah
Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, was recently featured in a major retrospective on the works of filmmaker Claude Lanzmann held in Paris. She tells us: “As part of the Claude Lanzmann retrospective organized by the Bibliothèque publique d’information at the Centre Pompidou, I gave a public lecture on Wednesday 11/22 (picture above) on the […]
Mancuso Presents at 19th Century French Studies Conference
On November 11, Eleonora Mancuso presented a paper entitled “Blocked Passages and Paralysis: Women in Zola’s Thérèse Raquin and La Curée” at the Nineteenth Century French Studies Conference in Baltimore. Using a Disability Studies lens, her paper investigates how the Parisian passages, dreamlike spaces of modern consumption, are instead prison-like sites where women suffer from […]