Iffland Book Released in U.S.
Last year, Prof. James Iffland published a monumental two volume work on Salvadoran writer Roque Dalton, Para llegar a Roque Dalton: pequeños infiernos y otros paraísos. Initially, the book was released only in El Salvador, but it has now come out in the United States as well, published by the University of North Carolina Press. […]
Mayron Leads New York Lorca Tour
In late March, Laura Mayron led a Manhattan walking tour of Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York. Designed for Dr. Maria Luisa Guardiola’s upper-level Spanish class at Swarthmore College, Laura created and directed a literary walking tour with a variety of stops across New York City. The group visited Central Park, the New York […]
RS Graduate Students Hold Conference
On Saturday, April 15, graduate students from Romance Studies hosted a hybrid graduate conference on the theme of “Illusion & Delusion.” We heard presentations from students coming from as near as our own BU Romance Studies department to as far as University of St. Andrew’s in Scotland. Dr. Rachel Mesch gave a wonderful and illuminating keynote […]
Mayron Presents at ACLA
Laura Mayron attended ACLA 2023 in Chicago to present her paper “Man in the Moon: Representations of the Self in Federico García Lorca’s Dedicatorias.” Part of the “Modernist Prolegomena” panel, Laura presented alongside several former advisees of Department Chair Nicolás Fernández-Medina. Her paper explored Lorca’s dedicatory letters and drawings in a range of his works given […]
NeMLA 2024 Call for Session Proposals & Abstracts
To submit a proposal, log in here. Session proposals are due by May 10, 2023, and abstract proposals by September 30, 2023.
Giving Day Success for RS & O’Connor Fund!
Romance Studies and the Carrie O’Connor fund had a great day yesterday for BU’s annual Giving Day! The Romance Studies Department received support from 37 donors, and the Carrie O’Connor fund raised a tremendous $13,420 from 32 donors. The funds raised will support a wide range of activities at the department, and the O’Connor funds […]
RS Graduate Student Conference This Weekend!
The Romance Studies Graduate Students will be hosting a literature conference centered on the theme of Illusion and Delusion. Panels will vary from medieval Italian literature to Post-Colonial French literature and will explore how lines are blurred between what is real and what is perceived within literature and film. The conference explores questions of individual and collective […]
Listernick Gives Talk at NeMLA
Dr. Joan Listernick, one of our PT lecturers in French, presented a paper at the recent NeMLA conference in Buffalo, New York. Her topic was the theme of resilience in the posthumous unpublished memoir of her Parisian aunt, Dr. Mireille Zonis (1936-2021), a pediatrician. Dr. Zonis had fled her native Bessarabia during the Shoah, living […]
Jorge Sanchez Presents at Conference in Colombia
Jorge Sanchez, a student in our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, gave a paper at the XXXII Congreso Internacinal de Literatura y Estudios Hispanicos, in Colombia. Jorge’s paper is titled, “Niñas marcadas: exploración de la violencia en los cuentos “Roberto”, de Agustina Bazterrica, “Fin de curso”, de Mariana Enriquez y “Mariposas”, de Samanta […]
José Quispe Presents at NeMLA
José Quispe Coronel, a doctoral student in our graduate program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, presented a paper at the 2023 NeMLA conference. José’s paper was titled, “Un no a la resignación o la intransigencia del deseo en Luis Cernuda.” José tells us: “The paper focused on analyzing the influence of six poets of the […]