Bryzys Presents Research at International Medieval Studies Congress
PhD candidate Wiktoria Bryzys presented her research at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies on May 15, 2026. Her paper, “Consuming the Ruin: The Ethics of Lament in Andalusi City Elegies,” examined how medieval Arabic poetry transformed political catastrophe into aesthetic reflection. Focusing on the Elegy for al-Andalus by Abū al-Baqāʾ al-Rundī, written in response to the […]
Savo Receives 2026 La corónica International Book Prize
Professor Anita Savo has received the 2026 La corónica International Book Prize for her monograph Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority (University of Toronto Press, 2024). The annual award recognizes the best monograph published on medieval Hispanic languages, literatures, and cultures. The prize was announced on May 15 at the International Congress […]
Cervantes Translation Prize Awarded to Huercanos Esparza
On April 29th, Íñigo Huercanos Esparza was awarded the newly established Cervantes Translation Prize, presented by the Instituto Cervantes Observatory at Harvard in collaboration with Boston University. The award was conferred by Executive Director Francisco Javier Pueyo Mena alongside Professor Christopher Maurer and recognizes Huercanos Esparza’s English translation of Ignacio Aldecoa’s Chico de Madrid. His […]
RS Faculty Present at the AATF
This July, Maria Bobroff and Lillie Webb presented their work as fellows in BU’s Designing Antiracist Curricula Program (2023-2024) at the 2025 American Association of Teachers of French Convention in a presentation entitled “Anti-Racist Approaches to Decolonizing and Diversifying a French Language Program.” The 2025 AATF Convention, held in Chicago, hosted presenters speaking on the […]
Cañigueral Batllosera Publishes Catalan Translation of Boccaccio
The Department of Romance Studies is pleased to share that Pau Cañigueral Batllosera, Lecturer in Spanish, has published a new Catalan translation of The Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio. Released in December by Edicions de la Ela Geminada, an independent publisher based in Girona, Spain, the translation brings one of Boccaccio’s lesser-known works to […]
Cazenave Publishes Book Chapter
This summer, Professor Jennifer Cazenave published a book chapter titled “The Holocaust and Film” in The Cambridge History of the Holocaust. In this book chapter, Professor Cazenave presents the history of Holocaust cinema since 1945, orienting films along an imaginary axis defined, on the one hand, by the melodramatic realism of the American television miniseries Holocaust and, on […]
Architectures of the Apocalypse
The Romance Department is pleased to celebrate the successful conclusion of Professor Irit Kleiman’s conference on “Architectures of the Apocalypse.” Apocalypse contains both end and beginning, annihilation and exaltation. The apocalyptic promises death and destruction, yes, but also knowledge and transformation. The apocalypse is above all a threshold. As an object of inquiry, apocalypse calls for […]
A Celebration of Francophone Film at Boston University
The Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival at BU wrapped up its 2025 season with a vibrant lineup of six films, from an animated journey to social and political stories centered on the theme of survival. The Festival began with the award-winning animated feature Flow, directed by Gints Zilbalodis. It’s a dialogue-free animation telling the story […]
Alumna Joss Joins Bank of America’s Philanthropy Unit
We’re delighted to share an update from Khadija Joss, an alumna of our PhD program in French, who began a new position in August as Vice President, Philanthropic Client Manager at Bank of America Private Bank. In this role, she works with the Charitable Gift Fund, the bank’s donor-advised fund, to support clients’ philanthropy and […]
Fall 2025 French Film Festival Schedule Announced!
The Albertine French Film Festival will be returning to BU this fall with a lineup of six films, a mix of classic and contemporary! The theme for this year’s festival is, ‘Tales of Survival.’ The full schedule is available now. The Albertine French Film festival is organized by doctoral students in French Language & Literature […]