Dusewoir Elected to MaFLA Board
Join us in congratulating Liliane Dusewoir for joining the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association (MaFLA.) In her new role, she hopes to get Romance Studies and language educators at the college level more aware of what and how students learn before college. MaFLA also offers rich opportunities for professional development.
Amanda Lee Profiled
BU’s Center for the Humanities has profiled Amanda Lee, Visiting Assistant Professor of French, as part of its ‘New to BU’ series. From the article: “Lee’s work sits at the intersection of literary studies, performance studies, and performance. As both a scholar and practitioner, Lee finds herself uniquely positioned to “engage with the authors and […]
Colmenares Presents at ASE Conference
David Colmenares, Assistant Professor of Spanish, presented at this year’s conference of the American Society for Ethnohistory. His paper, titled “Remember Chapultepec: History of Emotions and Emotive Histories Among the Nahua,” was part of a panel on “Emotive Readings of the Aztec/Nahua Codices.” From the abstract: “A theatrical form of crying marked every important personal […]
Bianconi Publishes Piece in The Portuguese Newsletter
Celia Bianconi, Master Lecturer in Portuguese, has published an article in The Portuguese Newsletter (published by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese) describing an online student conversation project developed by herself and a colleague at the University of Florida. From the article: “Conversa Fiada (ChitChat) is a project based in Elementary Portuguese […]
Savo Publishes Article
Anita Savo, Assistant Professor of Spanish, recently published an article titled, “It’s a Man’s World: Women and Movement in Juan Manuel’s Works,” in Bulletin of Spanish Studies. In the piece, Savo studies representations of women’s travel in two medieval prose genres: exemplary literature and historiography. While Juan Manuel’s exemplary literature paints a more conservative picture […]
Gerardo Cruz Publishes Article
Doctoral student Gerardo Cruz-Gunnerth explores the literary frontier between human and animal in an newly published article on Julio Cortázar’s “Axolotl” in the volume Autres Modernités, from the University of Milán. Cruz takes a new approach to Cortázar’s short story, after pointing out that his fiction expresses the animal question on many occasions, exposing their […]
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships
FORD FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS Through its program of fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the […]
BU 2nd Language & Disabilities Conference – 2022 CFP
The Department of Romance Studies at Boston University invites proposals for the 4th edition of the Second Language Learning & Disabilities International Conference to be held on February 25-26, 2022 at Boston University, following a hybrid format (1st day in-person and 2nd day remote). This conference aims to support second language-learning faculty in developing more […]
Jim Carter Profiled by BUCH
New Italian Lecturer Jim Carter has been profiled by BU’s Center for the Humanities. In the piece, Carter discusses his life-long love of cinema, as well as the path he took – via cinema – to the field of Italian studies. Read the full interview.
BU Language Brown Bag, Spring ’22
We invite you to submit a proposal to present at our Brown Bag Workshop Series in Spring 2022 for language faculty and graduate students. We welcome proposals on any language pedagogical topic of interest. Presentations have typically explored innovative practices in teaching foreign languages using media, arts, authentic materials, remote and LfA learning practices and other relevant topics. You […]