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!
Huércanos Esparza Chairs NeMLA Panel
At the Northeast Modern Language Association conference held in March of this year, PhD student Íñigo Huércanos Esparza chaired a panel on nineteenth-century Spanish culture and national identity. Panelists covered a wide range of media (newspapers, novels, opera) and touched on topics such as the image of Spain abroad, the construction of a national canon, […]
Jennifer Cazenave Receives Fellowship
Jennifer Cazenave has been awarded a 2025-2026 fellowship from the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut. She will be spending the 2025-26 academic year at the Institute where she will write the remaining two chapters of her second book, Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive (under contract with Columbia University Press).
French PhD Students & Alumni Present at Conference
Two of our current PhD students in French (Kara Saar and Fargol Khosravanifard) as well as two of our recent alumni from that program (Tiffany Bailey and Brittany Bernard) recently presented at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium held at UNC Greensboro. This colloquium centered around the theme of “Justice”, […]
Carrie O’Connor Memorial Travel Fund 2025
Dear RS colleagues, BU Giving Day will soon be here on Wednesday April 9! Each year, BU holds Giving Day as a way for programs, departments, and organizations to maximize their fundraising efforts through friendly competition and matched university funds. If you are able, please consider donating to the Carrie O’Connor Memorial Travel Fund. The […]
Hackbarth & Perdomo Present on Creating Community for Heritage Learners at Harvard University
Viktoria Hackbarth, Master Lecturer and Azlín Perdomo, Lecturer, presented at the Boston Area Language Pedagogy Conference at Harvard University on March 29, 2025. Their session focused on community-building in the heritage language classroom through intentional and collaborative activities.
Rutgers French Graduate Student Association Symposium
French Graduate Student Association Symposium on Ghost: Haunting Presence and Absence in Works of Art 10 April 2025 Rutgers University French Graduate Student Organization invites scholars, and theorists from all disciplines to discuss how ghosts manifest across different art forms and serve as metaphors for personal and collective histories, resisting historical amnesia, trauma, and cultural forgetting. […]
Sembe Defends Dissertation
Congratulations to Karina Sembe, who successfully defended her dissertation on March 25! Karina will graduate this May with a PhD in Hispanic Language & Literature. From Karina’s abstract: “This dissertation explores the socio-racial image that contributed to Black upward mobility in the 16th-19th centuries. I analyze three case studies from South America whose archival presence […]
Bianconi Publishes Article
Celia Bianconi, Master Lecturer in Portuguese, has published a piece in the journal, Portuguese Language Journal. Her work appears in a special edition of the journal titled, Voices of Leadership: Women in Portuguese Language Programs in U.S. Higher Education. Bianconi’s article is called, “The Journey of a Lifelong Transformation,” and describes her path to becoming […]
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, […]