Lafortune Book Featured at Festival
Fred Lafortune, an incoming student in our French Language & Literature PhD program, participated in a panel at Gordon College’s Five Ponds Creative Writing Festival. The panel focused on Lafortune’s own book, specifically on the translation of it. His book – An n al Lazil – was originally written in Haitian Creole and is in […]
Alarcon & Holt Present at Flame Conference
Poliana Alarcon Bustos and Chloe Holt, second year students in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented on an innovative remote learning pedagogy project they developed at the 2021 FLAME (Foreign Language Association of Maine) conference. Their presentation was titled, “Intercultural IPAs in the Age of Remote Teaching,” and was developed with guidance from Alison […]
LS 308 Dueling Film Creations
Students in two of the LS 308 classes this spring (Spanish through Film & New Media) experienced a special component to their coursework! Saraí García Santos and Molly Monet-Viera, who each taught a section of LS 308 this term, held a film competition for the students of their two sections. The students created short films, […]
Borinsky wins Enrique Anderson Imbert Award
Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Comparative Literature Alicia Borinsky received the Enrique Anderson Imbert Award for her lifelong career as a scholar and creative writer from the North-American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE). The award is given yearly in April in celebration of the 16th-century Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes. The purpose of […]
Noberto James Rawlings, RS Alumnus & Poet, Passes Away
Noberto James Rawlings, prominent Dominican poet and alumnus of the Romance Studies Department, died earlier this year after a 15 year battle with Parkinson’s disease. Born to a poor family in the Dominican Republic in 1945, Noberto persevered in his studies despite considerable challenges, graduating from High School, going to college, and eventually earning his […]
RS Welcomes New Italian Lecturer
The Romance Studies Department is delighted to announce that Dr. Jim Carter will be joining us as a new Lecturer in Italian, beginning in the fall 2021 term. Jim Carter encountered Italian culture as a study abroad student, when he worked as a film journalist in Florence, Italy. He went on to earn a PhD […]
Dusewoir & Webb Lead ‘French’ Tour of Boston
This past Sunday, BU French Lecturers Liliane Dusewoir and Lillie Webb led a physically distant group of students through the sunny streets of downtown Boston, not just to enjoy the beautiful Spring blooms, but to take a deep dive into the connections between Boston and France in a tour entitled: Illustrious Frenchmen of Boston! The […]
2021 Grad Conference a Big Success!
The Romance Studies graduate students held their annual conference this past weekend, in a virtual format for the second year. Kelly Keenan, one of the organizers of the event, tells us: “The 2021 graduate student conference went wonderfully! We had more panelists than we have had at any recent conference over the past few years, […]
Filipa Costa Delves into Portuguese Literature
Want to study a topic, but can’t find a class for it? Junior Filipa Costa did just that by taking advantage of the directed study opportunity here at BU. Over the Fall and Spring semesters, she studied important Portuguese literature and film in order to identify distinctive characteristics and themes across the Lusophone world. In […]
Vinces Defends Dissertation
Mike Vinces, doctoral student in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Espiritualización del tigre Lugoniano: Leopoldo Lugones, precursor del populismo moderno Latinoamericano.” The dissertation examines the complicated literary and political legacy of the Argentine writer Leopoldo Lugones (1874 – 1938). Vinces is expected to graduate in May 2021.