Miami Modern Languages & Literatures Graduate Student Conference
This is a call for papers for the University of Miami’s Modern Languages and Literatures Spring 2025 Graduate Student Conference, “The Arm of the State, The Hand of Power: Resistance and Resilience in the Midst of Fear.” The conference is scheduled for Thursday, February 20th and Friday, February 21st, 2025. Deadline for abstracts is Dec. 6. […]
Fernández-Medina Publishes Book
Nicolás Fernández-Medina, Professor of Spanish and Iberian Studies, has published a new translation with Clemson University Press. The book is titled Morbidities and “The Concept of The New Literature”, and includes translations of two books (both originally published in Spanish) by the late Ramón Gómez de la Serna, along with an introduction by Fernández-Medina. From […]
29th Annual CLIFF Conference
Call for Papers science—literature—technology rupture, relation, constellation 29th Annual CLIFF Conference University of Michigan, Ann Arbor March 21-22, 2025 Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024 Research begins with a question—an uncertainty—an openness. In both the sciences and the humanities, the core position of the researcher is one of uncertainty on the edge of knowledge and understanding. […]
Zine Lugar
Call for Artists and Creators. Deadline: November 10.
Cazenave Co-Edits Book, Saar Contributes Article
Earlier this summer, a special issue of Interculturel Francophonies was released, focussed on the Mauritian Writer Ananda Devi, and co-edited by Odile Cazenave (Professor of French here at BU) and Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François (Penn State University). Ananda Devi was the 2024 recipient of the Neustadt literary award. The volume encompasses contributions by both academics and […]
Noudou Successfully Defends Dissertation
Anik Noudou, a doctoral student in our French Language & Literature program, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation this past Monday. Noudou’s dissertation is titled, A Question of Gaze: The Representation of Women in Fracophone African Novels & Films Forty Years After Mariama Bâ. From the dissertation abstract: “The portrayal of women in Francophone African literature […]
BU Romance Studies at the 19th Century French Studies Conference
BU Romance Studies was well represented at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, hosted by Duke University Sept 18-20. The theme of the conference was, “Producing and Receiving the 19th Century.” Prof. Rachel Mesch organized a panel on “Producing Colonial Spaces” and gave a talk entitled, “Gender Play: Orientalism at Home at the Fin de Siècle.” […]
GCWS Graduate Student Conference
Graduate students in all areas of study are invited to submit their abstracts or synopses of in-progress scholarly papers, dissertation or thesis chapters, article drafts, or in-progress film/mixed media works. Proposals may come in the form of papers, films, art, performance, visual art, or alternate forms not listed above. This conference invites graduate student scholars, […]
Catalina Rodríguez Awarded Professorship
Assistant Professor of Spanish Catalina Rodríguez has been awarded the Wetherill-Bloom career Development Professorship in the Humanities by Boston University. Congratulations to Prof. Rodríguez! Catalina Rodríguez is a scholar of Latin American literature and culture from the 19th century forward, whose writings focus on gender and sexuality studies, women’s literature, theories of authorship, ecofeminism, and […]
Ubelaker Andrade Publishes Translation
Max Ubelaker Andrade, a graduate of the department’s doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, just published a new translation with punctum books titled boy says. It is a bilingual Spanish / English edition of Néstor Ponce’s book of poetry, Vos es, which plays with themes of authorship, identity, and influence while publicly offering a kind of […]