University of Pennsylvania – Graduate Conference
FRAMINGS February 24-25, 2023 University of Pennsylvania Graduate Conference Department of Spanish and Portuguese Keynote Speakers: Emilio Sauri and Victoria Saramago Call for papers Framing produces and is reproduced in the tension between what is placed within it and what is left outside its borders. All framings demand a perspective; they hinge on […]
FOGO 2023
Who has not felt fascinated by a terrifying image? The conference FOLKLORE AND GOTHIC: SUPERNATURAL PRESENCES AND ENVIRONMENTS IN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS will be hosted by the University of León (Spain) on July 5, 6 and 7, 2023. The CFP can be found here: https://fogoconference.unileon.es/ If you are interested in presenting, now’s your chance! The FOGO […]
Datel Honored by ACTFL
Congratulations to Master Lecturer in Spanish María Datel, who will be honored this coming Saturday with one of ACTFL’s highest national awards, the Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture. The award “recognizes a language educator who has made significant impact through the teaching of culture in the world language classroom and […]
Alarcon Bustos Presents at Conference
Poliana Alarcon Bustos, a student in our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, presented at a conference on Tuesday, November 8th, in Brockton, MA, as a co-facilitator with Hilda Ramirez. Ramirez is the Player Development Education Coordinator at the Boston Red Sox, and also the former Executive Director of the Latino Education Institute of […]
Mayron Publishes Article
Laura Mayron, a doctoral student in our program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has had an article accepted for publication in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Laura tells us about her article: “My article, ‘Dionysian Embodiment: Abject Queerness in Federico García Lorca’s ‘Ode to Walt Whitman” will be published in the Revista Canadiense de Estudios […]
Arche Call for Submissions
Boston University’s student-led journal of philosophy, Arché, is currently seeking submissions for the Fall 2022 issue, No. 12. This issue is a general topics issue and as such is not devoted to explorations of a special topic or theme in a particular area of philosophy. We are open to submissions of various formats, including research papers, […]
French Film Festival Concludes Successful Run
The Albertine Cinémathèque Film Festival at BU has just concluded another successful season! Co-organizers Tiffany Bailey, Eleonora Mancuso, and Kara Saar were pleased with how all 6 Francophone films they chose illustrated their theme for this year — Revolutionary Youth — and were happy to see the screening room full of people from inside and […]
Instituto Cervantes – Rewriting Hispanic Literature in the 21st Century U.S.
The Instituto Cervantes has issued a call for papers for the ‘Literary Shifts’ section of its monthly publication Observatory Studies. This call for papers is to initiate a new line of research dedicated to the reception and translation, in the United States, of works or authors from the Spanish-speaking world. Details can be found here.
Graduate Writing Fellowships
The CAS Writing Program is soliciting applications from GRS doctoral students interested in being considered for one of approximately 10-12 Graduate Writing Fellowships available beginning Fall 2023. (The number of new awards varies slightly with the number of continuing fellows.) I would be grateful if you could bring these awards to the attention of your […]
Odile Cazenave Publishes Book Chapter, Appears at Conference
Earlier this summer, Odile Cazenave published a book chapter, “Economie d’écriture, densité de la pensée, et transmedialité des genres: l’exemple de Sami Tchak” in Sami Tchak. Les Voies d’un renouveau, edited by Papa Samba Diop. In additioan, she was recently invited to the second edition of “Des Vignes entre les lignes—Mi-femme, Mi-raisin” in Corsica, where […]