Sembe Presents at African American Intellectual History Society Conference
The African American Intellectual History Society’s (AAIHS) Tenth Anniversary Conference was held March 14-15, in Providence, Rhode Island, in partnership with Brown University. Centered around the theme “Slavery and Its Afterlives”, the conference examined the multifaceted legacies of slavery across geographies locations and time periods, such as memory and community, cultural expressions, global diasporic perspectives, […]
MLA Panel – Of Monsters & Mothers
This panel, “Of Monsters and Mothers: Challenging Representations and Theories of Maternity in Literature,” seeks to explore how literature complicates, subverts, and redefines conventional understandings of motherhood. From monstrous maternal figures to radical reimaginings of care, the maternal body has long been a contested site of power, anxiety, and transformation in literary texts. We invite interdisciplinary […]
Listernick Classes Visit MFA
Joan Listernick recently took her third and fourth semester French classes on a guided tour of the MFA. Dr. Listernick tells us: “I took students from my third and fourth semester French classes on a private guided tour of the Museum of Fine Arts, focusing on works from the Maghreb. We explored a diverse selection […]
Sanchez Presents His Research
Shortly before spring break, Jorge Sanchez was invited by Dr. Kimberley C. Patton to present in her seminar The Animal Imaginary: Fantastic Animals in Myth and History. His presentation was titled “Latin American sirenas”, and he explored authors from his dissertation, such as Samanta Schweblin and Ana María Shua. Additionally, he served as chair of […]
Nassi Peric Lands Assistant Professor Position
Alumnus Bruni Nassi Peric, who graduated from our department in January of 2023 with a PhD in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has been hired as a tenure track Assistant Professor (Professor a tiempo completo) at the Universidad del Pacífico, in Lima, Peru. The position is 50% research and 50% teaching. Additionally, a revised version of […]
Hackbarth Presents on Using ChatGPT in Designing Learning Experiences
Viktoria Hackbarth, Master Lecturer in Spanish, presented at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) on March 1, 2025. In her session, Process-Oriented Learning with Generative AI Activities and Tasks, Viktoria shared how she has integrated Generative AI writing activities across all sections of the Fourth-Semester Spanish Language curriculum. At the conference, […]
Zine Lugar: Call for Artists
In a time of uncertainty and struggle we are seeking to carve out a space for all, reclaiming our identity and right to exist. We invite you to contribute to our second issue titled Displacement & (Des)Bordes. For this number, we want to explore how borders- both visible and invisible- are reimagined, and how the […]
Keenan Defends Dissertation
Kelly Keenan, PhD student in our French Language & Literature program, successfully defended her dissertation on Monday, March 3. Congratulations, Kelly! Kelly’s dissertation is titled Rewriting Body and Word: Gender and Catholicism in French Literature and Film. From her abstract: “From the French Revolution through the separation of Church and state to the 1968 cultural […]
BUCH Celebrates Recent Book Publications
Last Friday, BUCH held its annual celebration of humanitities book publications at BU. Among the books celebrated were new publications from Nicolás Fernández-Medina, Nick Huckle, and Jim Iffland. Their works featured at the event were: Fernández-Medina, Morbidities and “The Concept of the New Literature” by Ramón Gómez de la Serna (Clemson UP 2024), Huckle, Iconophages: A […]
Sanchez Publishes Chapter
Jorge Sanchez, a student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures PhD program, has published a chapter from his dissertation. The piece is titled, “Mermaids, Werewolves, ‘Humanimals’ and Unnamable Monsters: A Review of Monsters in Contemporary Literature of the Latin American Southern Cone,” and will be published in the book Casas Tomadas: Monsters and Metaphors on the […]