Guerrero Peirano Interviewed for BU Alumni Website
Romance Studies alumna Victoria Guerrero Peirano was recently interviewed for the BU alumni page. Guerrero Peirano, a professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, reflects on how her time at BU has influenced her poetry and prose about the lives of women. In Boston, she says, she was able to find books about women, feminism, […]
Tormos Organizes LASA Panel
Edgardo Tormos co-organized a 2-part panel for LASA 2021 along with Prof. Adela Pineda Franco. The panels, titled “Hacia la Revolución mexicana global: perspectivas transnacionales del siglo XX y XXI, Parts I & II” offered eclectic, transnational perspectives on how the literature and film shaped the evolving hegemonic discourses on the Mexican Revolution during the […]
Garriga Presents at LASA
As part of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) annual conference, Laurie Garriga participated in the panel ““Visualizaciones y visibilidades: Puerto Rico, puertorriqueñes y puertorriqueñidades desde lentes los estéticos y performáticos” . Laurie’s presentation, “Archivo ilustrado: artistas puertorriqueñxs en Instagram’,’ followed the works of four different Puerto Rican illustrators and their archival practices through Instagram. […]
Tufts University – Spanish PT
Department of Romance Studies PART-TIME LECTURER IN SPANISH INTERMEDIATE LANGUAGE COURSE Tufts University, Department of Romance Studies is soliciting applications for a Part-Time Lecturer position in Spanish for Fall 2021 (with possibility of renewal), to teach an intermediate language class. Requirements: an M.A. or equivalent is preferred. Previous college-level teaching experience is required. Native or […]
Riley Magane Assists Savo with Medieval Commentary Traditions Project
Riley Magane is a junior studying Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Genetics, with a minor in Spanish. Over the course of the spring 2021 semester, she completed a UROP-funded research project with Professor Anita Savo to explore commentary traditions in medieval Iberia. This collaboration had its roots in the fall 2020 semester, when she took […]
Brandeis University, Multiple Positions
The Hispanic Studies program at Brandeis is searching for a number of positions at the level of Lecturer, both part time (Fall 2021) and full time, both for the language and for the literary and cultural studies programs. Please spread the information to potential candidates. https://www.brandeis.edu/romance-studies/employment.html
RS Celebrates 2021 Graduates & Award Winners
The Romance Studies Department is proud to recognize our 2021 graduates and award winners! At a virtual celebration held on May 14, Department chair Odile Cazenave noted that the students have, over the past year and a half, faced ‘unimaginable challenges,’ but that they have shown resilience and resourcefulness in facing those challenges. They have […]
VOCUM 2021
LANGUAGE AND SPACE We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 8th edition of VocUM, which will take place online on November 18th, 19th and 20th, 2021. VocUM is an annual international conference organized by students of the Université de Montréal, all from different fields of study relating to language. […]
NeMLA 2021
The deadline to submit a session proposal for the 2022 NeMLA Convention has been extended to May 20, 2021! To submit a session proposal, click here. The 53rd Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention will take place March 10-13, 2022 in Baltimore, MD. We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Professor Judith Butler, and that Valeria Luiselli, author of the prize-winning Lost […]
Printed Afterlives Conference
This past weekend, the Romance Studies Department sponsored a conference titled “Printed Afterlives,” organized by RS Assistant Professors Anita Savo and David Colmenares. Printed Afterlives brought together an international group of scholars of medieval Iberia and colonial Latin America to explore what Prof. David Colmenares calls our “love-hate relationship” with the nineteenth-century scholars and editors […]