Romance Studies Recognizes Outstanding TFs
The Romance Studies Department is pleased to recognize four of our teaching fellows for outstanding work during the 2022-2023 academic year! French Eleonora Mancuso In her first year teaching in RS, Eleonora was a dynamic member of the French language teaching faculty and her effort and service to the department and her students was exemplary. […]
Maria Bobroff Hosts Dr. Vinay Swamy
Dr. Maria Bobroff, Lecturer in French, hosted a virtual visit by Dr. Vinay Swamy of Vassar College on Thursday, April 27. Swamy is the co-editor of Devenir non-binaire en français contemporain (Le Manuscrit, 2022), a collection of essays that explore gender-neutral, nonbinary, and inclusive language use across the Francophone world. With funds from a Learn […]
Emory University: Postdoc in French
Postdoctoral Fellowship in French AY 2023-24 Department of French and Italian – Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia Emory University’s Department of French and Italian announces a position in the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in French to begin August 2023 and end May 2024 with a 2/2 teaching load. The ideal candidate will enhance the diversity […]
Wellesley French Visiting Lecturer
The Department of French and Francophone Studies at Wellesley College invites applications for a Visiting Lecturer position, beginning in Fall 2023. This is a one-year, part-time (0.8 FTE), benefits-eligible appointment. PhD, ABD, MAT all considered: we seek a candidate with strong, demonstrated skills in the teaching of beginning and intermediate level courses in French language […]
Alejandro Lopez Presents at Conference in Colombia
Alejandro Lopez, one of our doctoral students in Hispanic Language & Literature, recently presented a paper at the XXXII Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. From Alejandro’s abstract: El presente ensayo explora la relación entre la novela Rayuela de Julio Cortázar y el mito originario de la Torre de […]
CFP: The Arts in Society Conference
The Arts in Society Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the role of the arts in society. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed […]
Bryzys Wins GRS TF Award
Wiktoria Bryzys, a PhD student in our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has been honored with a 2023 Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Fellow award. Congratulations, Wiktoria! From the faculty who nominated Wiktoria: “Wiktoria Bryzys is one of the most creative graduate students that the Spanish team has had the […]
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 […]