UCLA – 54th Mester
This year, I am the editor-in-chief of Mester, the graduate-run journal of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. Mester publishes academic articles, interviews, and book reviews on Iberian, Latin American, Brazilian, Luso-African, and Chicanx literature, culture, and linguistics. Mester seeks articles from transdisciplinary and multimedia perspectives examining the historical and contemporary tensions in Latin […]
University of Pennsylvania Grad Conference
University of Pennsylvania Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies FIGGS Graduate Conference: 04/26/2025 Reimagining Collage Although the technique of collage as an art form first appeared in medieval Europe as early as the 13th century, the term was only officially coined by art historians after 1900, under the influence of André Breton and the […]
Alumna Sarli Mercado Promoted
Sarli E. Mercado, a 2007 graduate of our doctoral program in Spanish Language & Literatures, has been promoted to Full Teaching Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Congratulations! Mercado is a literary critic and author of Cartografías del destierro: en torno a la poesía de Juan Gelman y Luisa Futoransky. (Cartographies of Exile: On the […]
Boston College Graduate Student Conference
Graduate Student Conference “Queer Forms: Identity Narratives and Transformative Aesthetics” March 28, 2025 — March 29, 2025 Forms—whether literary, corporeal, or the shapes of the communities and traditions we embrace or resist—can serve to categorize and confine or to liberate and synthesize, opening up new possibilities for our lives and our art. This conference, “Queer […]
French Film Festival Concludes Successful Run
The Albertine Cinémathèque Film Festival at Boston University has just wrapped up another successful season! Co-organizers Fargol Khosravanifard, Eleonora Mancuso, and Kara Saar were delighted with how the seven Francophone films selected this year brought their theme — Monsters: The Beasts Among Us — to life and were pleased to see the screening room filled […]
Alumna Brittany Bernard Presents at PAMLA Conference
This past Saturday, Brittany Bernard spoke on a panel discussing the works of French filmmaker, Agnès Varda at the PAMLA Conference in Palm Springs, California. Her paper, entitled “’The Medium is (Her) Message’: Translating the Off-Frame in Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7,” drew from economist Elvina Fesneau’s media study on the rise of […]
Syracuse University Colloquium
The French Department at Syracuse University and its Graduate Students are honored to announce a call for papers for our upcoming colloquium, “Theater and Cinema: Staging Challenges in the Francophone World,” to be held on April 11, 2024. This event will gather scholars to delve into the complex relationships between theater and cinema, with a […]
An Interview with Guila Clara Kessous
Guila Clara Kessous earned her PhD in French Language & Literature from the BU Romance Studies Department, graduating in 2008. She has spent her time since then as a human rights artist and academic. Kessous was nominated UNESCO Artist for Peace for her dedication to the arts and human rights, and Knight of Arts & […]
Italian Writer Dacia Maraini Presents at BU
On October 28, the Italian writer Dacia Maraini visited BU for a presentation of her autobiography, Vita mia (Rizzoli, 2023). Maraini held a public conversation with Jim Carter about her experience in a Japanese concentration camp during WWII, then she read from her book and took questions from the audience.
Gonzalez-Arias Publishes Article
Francisca Gonzalez-Arias’s article, “Translating Emilia Pardo Bazán in the United States: Women of the American Fin-de Siécle: Fanny Hale Gardiner and the ‘Isabellas,'” has just been published in Issue 93 of Observatorio Studies (Harvard University), “English-Spanish Translation in the US Context.” The article focuses on the life, social activism, and the translation process of Fanny […]