Lopez Publishes Essay
Alejandro Lopez, one of our Spanish PhD students, has published an essay with the Observatorio del Instituto Cervantes at Harvard. The essay is titled, “Literary Shifts. The Obscene Bird Sings Again: Tale of a Tortured Translation.” From the abstract: “This essay examines the translation history of José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night and its impact on […]
Sanchez Presents at Brown University Conference
Jorge Sanchez, a PhD student in Spanish, resently presented his paper titled, “Old Habits, New Horrors: Luciferian Figures in Contemporary Latin American Horror Literature from the Southern Cone.” The presentation analyzed the figure of the Devil in selected works by Francisco Espínola, José Donoso, Abelardo Castillo, Liliana Heker, and Luciano Lamberti.
LF 307 Class Cooks a French Meal!
Students in Maria Bobroff’s LF 307 Food & Culture in France recently completed their final projects for the course: the making of a three-course meal. Three teams, each consisting of 4-5 students, proposed a theme for their dinner, found recipes that were doable within the allotted budget and timeframe, shopped for ingredients, cooked and served […]
Sembe Presents at 19th Century Studies Association Conference
Karina Sembe, PhD student in Spanish, recently presented at the 46th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association in New Orleans, LA and received an award for her paper “Across National Borders, Across Color Lines: How a Brazilian Soldier Became a Poster Child for U.S. Abolitionism.” The conference featured multiple interdisciplinary panels, networking sessions, and […]
Mancuso Presents at Society of Dix-Neuviémistes
The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes held its annual conference from March 31 to April 2 in Durham, United Kingdom. This year’s conference was organized around the theme of DomiNation, inviting scholars to reflect on structures of power, identity, and resistance in nineteenth-century French and Francophone literature and culture. French PhD candidate Eleonora Mancuso presented her paper […]
Saar to Teach in France
French PhD student Karaleigh Saar will spend next academic year teaching English at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France. Kara tells us, “I am absolutely thrilled to have this teaching and research opportunity at the ENS Lyon. I especially anticipate that living and working in France will enrich my dissertation research on perpetually-evolving feminist […]
Gelardo-Rodríguez and Verónica Rodríguez Ballesteros at Latino & Iberian XV International Seminar on Hispanic Actors in Exile
Our alumna Teresa Gelardo-Rodríguez and our colleague Verónica Rodríguez Ballesteros were invited to participate in the Latino & Iberian XV International Seminar on Hispanic Actors in Exile organized by AEHC and LIFFY in Yale University, April 11th-12th. Teresa and Verónica presented their work on Margarita Xirgu and Encarnación López Júlvez “La Argentinita” with an innovative […]
NeMLA Call for Session Proposals
NeMLA’s 2026 convention committee is soliciting Session Proposals. Convention Information. Submissions for NeMLA occur in two stages Stage 1: Session Proposals (due May 15) Session proposal deadline is May 15, 2025. Please review the session types before submitting your session proposal. When thinking about a session proposal and drafting the description, your goal is to find a […]
Sanchez Presents at CILH
Jorge Sanchez, a PhD student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, recently presented at the Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispanicos, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sanchez examined a short story and a novel by the Argentinian author Luciano Lamberti, analyzing the figure of the Devil or Lucifer as a metaphor of violence perpetrated by […]
Alumnus Villacorta Promoted
Carlos Villacorta, who graduated from our department with a PhD in Hispanic Language & Literatures in 2009, has been promoted from Associate Professor of Spanish to Professor of Spanish, at the University of Maine. Carlos is currently the chair of the Modern Languages & Classics Department at the University of Maine. Congratulations, Carlos!