Department Honors Teaching Fellows
The annual Romance Studies departmental Teaching Fellow Awards have been announced. French Tiffany Bailey Khadija El Karfi Spanish José Dominicci Rosana Hernandez Congratulations to all four for their excellent work teaching for Romance Studies!
Nicolás Fernández-Medina comes to BU
Prof. Nicolás Fernández-Medina, of Penn State University, will be joining the Romance Studies Department in January 2023 as Full Professor of Spanish and Department Chair. He will be visiting the department during fall term to familiarize himself with the department and with CAS. Prof. Fernández-Medina writes that his teaching interests “range across genres and periods […]
RS Welcomes Four New Lecturers!
The Department is delighted to welcome four new full-time Lecturers in Spanish who will begin teaching in AY 22-23. Together, they bring a wealth of expertise and experience to our Spanish language program. Philip Noonan received his PhD from the Department of Romance Studies in 2021 with a dissertation on the art of lecturing in […]
Visiting Assistant Professor Position for Gerardo Cruz
Gerardo Cruz, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, has been hired as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Boston College. Congratulations, Gerardo!
BC – Spanish PT Fall 2022
The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at Boston College is looking for a qualified person to teach an advanced undergraduate course this fall on Tuesday and Thursday 1:30-2:50 in the area of pre-1800 Peninsular literature and culture. Course content and focus are open within that field. Advanced ABD or PhD required. Program information is here. […]
Quispe Presents at LASA 2022
Doctoral student José Quispe (Hispanic Language & Literatures) presented at the recent Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA 2022). He tells us about his presentation as follows: As part of LASA 2022, I made a presentation about the novel Las malas by Argentine trans writer Camila Sosa Villada. This novel has been very well received […]
Marino & Raffo to Retire
Grazie Mille a Rosella Marino e Luisella Raffo! Your Italian colleagues and the entire Romance Studies department would like to express their sincere gratitude for your dedicated service in teaching for over 33 and 20 years, respectively. We wish you all the best in your retirement and will remember you fondly for your generous spirit […]
Bryzys Wins Translation Prize
Wiktoria Bryzys, a student in our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literature, has won first place for a verse translation in the 2022 Robert Fitzgerald Prize in Literary Translation, for the translation of selected poems by the Polish poet Halina Poswiatowska. The judges of the competition praised her work, saying “The first-person voice in […]
Datel Wins Fellowship
Senior Lecturer María Datel has been awarded a competitive fellowship from the Center for Antiracist Research (CAR), the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) and BU Diversity & Inclusion (BU D&I) to participate in the Designing Antiracism Curricula (DAC) Fellowship Program. This Fellowship brings together an inaugural cohort of Boston University educators in AY 22-23 to develop or redesign undergraduate or graduate […]
RFIEA Foundation
Dear colleagues, chers collègues, The RFIEA Foundation is glad to announce the launch of the call for applications of the French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme. The FIAS 2023-2024 call for applications is now open. Please spread the news! We will be thankful if you accept to help us in the dissemination of the […]