Lawrence University – French Tenure Track
Lawrence University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship specializing in Francophone Studies of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, or the Caribbean. The ideal candidate will demonstrate excellence in teaching French courses at introductory and advanced levels and will also possess the ability to teach within an interdisciplinary generalist curriculum and hold a strong secondary specialization […]
Lesley University – Latin Am. History Course
I am writing to you from Lesley University and was hoping you could help me. I am looking for an instructor to teach Latin American History in the fall. The instructor who was going to teach it has just informed me that she cannot do it, so I am trying to connect with as many […]
Garriga Defends Dissertation, Hired at College of the Holy Cross
Laurie Garriga, a student in our PhD in Hispanic Language & Literatures program, has successfully defended her dissertation, titled “Raíces y Alas: Puerto Rico and the Transnational Archive of Juan Ramón Jiménez.” From Laurie’s abstract: “My dissertation analyzes the Spanish Nobel Laureate poet’s transatlantic path and his relationship to Spain, the United States and Puerto […]
Villar to Leave BU
Marta Villar, a mainstay of the Romance Studies Department for over a decade, will be leaving BU at the conclusion of the 2021 Summer Term II. Villar has taught in the Spanish language program at BU since 2009. She has also published articles on Carmen Laforet and Carmen Martín Gaite. Best wishes, Marta!
Laura Bassi Scholarship
The Laura Bassi Scholarship, which awards a total of $8,000 thrice per annum, was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed. The scholarships are open to every discipline and the next round of funding […]
Newbury Seminar
The Archive: Theory, Form, Practice Fridays, February 11 – April 8, 2022 The Newberry Library invites graduate students in the humanities to apply for a seminar that will explore the theoretical, critical, and practical methods necessary to negotiate historical and literary archives. The seminar will be held on eight Fridays from February 11 – April 8, 2022 (with no meeting on Feb. 25). The course will be […]
The French, Hispanic and Italian Studies Department at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) would like to extend a warm invitation to your graduate students to submit abstracts for papers and presentations to the Ninth Biennial Graduate Student Conference “In-between Normalities: Care, Persistence and the (Re)Imagination of Life”. The conference will take place […]
Corredor Departs BU
Boris Corredor, lecturer in Spanish, will be leaving BU. Corredor will be remembered as a creative and innovative instructor always looking for ways to get his students deeply involved in what they are studying. Perhaps his most memorable innovation was to involve students in his LS 307 in cooking Latin American food, in order to […]
Pineda to Leave BU
Professor Adela Pineda, long a mainstay of the Spanish section, will be leaving BU to take up a post as the Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Pineda has for years been an important contributor to the Romance Studies Department, both as a […]
Amina Shabani Heads to Princeton
Amina Shabani, Lecturer in Spanish, will be leaving BU to take up a post teaching at Princeton University. Shabani has been a great asset to the Romance Studies Department in the years that she has been here – a devoted and creative teacher, and an invariably cheerful presence in the department. She will be missed. […]