Dr. Robin Mitchell Speaks with LF 860 Class
Dr. Robin Mitchell (SUNY Buffalo), historian of 19th-century France, came to speak with Prof. Rachel Mesch’s LF 860 class about her research process. Dr. Mitchell is the author of the acclaimed 2020 book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France. The class was delighted to speak with her!
Quispe Publishes on Luis Cernuda
The Boletín de la Academica Peruana de la Lengua has published an article by our student José Quispe. Quispe is a PhD student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program. Quispe tells us: “The paper is about the poetic work of Luis Cernuda during his years of exile due to the Spanish Civil War, and […]
2024 Disabilities Conference Full Schedule Released
BU Romance Studies will host our 6th Annual Conference on Second-Language Learning & Disabilities on March 1st and 2nd. According to conference organizers, “This event is designed to support instructors in creating anti-oppressive curricula that celebrate students’ unique differences through exploring research and pedagogical strategies that promote understanding, representation, and support for students with disabilities” […]
2024 Conference Keynote Speaker & Other Details Announced!
Quinteiro Pires Presents at MLA
Francisco Quinteiro Pires, a visiting professor at BU Romance Studies, recently presented a paper at the annual Modern Language Association convention titled “Sensing the ‘Discovery’: The First Contacts According to Pero Vaz de Caminha and Davi Kopenawa.” From his abstract: “This presentation explores the cultural frictions in the first contacts between Amerindians and non-indigenous people […]
Calderón Villón Publishes Article
Estef Calderón Villón has published an article titled, “The Erotics of Play: An Asexual Reading of the Poetic Work of José María Eguren” in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, in their Fall 2023 issue, “Queer in Latin America (and Beyond).” In December, Calderón Villón participated in a panel that was held on the occasion […]
Clinger Presents at MLA
Braden Clinger, a PhD student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented part of his research on the uses of the Pombero figure in Paraguayan literature and cultural production at MLA, as part of a panel titled “Beyond Magical Realism: Revindicating the Irreal in Contemporary South America.” His presentation focused on the first novel […]
LS 575 Class Produces Audio Book
The fall 2023 LS 575 (Topics in Peninsular Literature) class taught by Professor Pau Cañigueral Batllosera has put together a group of audio recordings as a class project. Prof. Cañigueral Batllosera tells us: “My students collaboratively produced an audiobook imitating some of the short-story collections we read during the semester. Students wrote the text and recorded […]
Odile Cazenave Publishes on Boris Diop
Professor Odile Cazenave has published a piece in an homage volume to Boubacar Boris Diop’s oeuvre as the recipient of the 2023 Neustadt Literary Award. Her article appears in Un cercle autour de Murambi. Le livre des ossements, Boubacar Boris Diop. (Ed. Koulsy Lamko, CORA, Senegal). The article explores the importance of the postface Boubacar […]
Carretero Martínez Publishes Article
Gonzalo Carretero Martínez, a student in our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has published an article titled “El romance del último rey godo y el capitán cautivo del Quijote,” in the journal Abenámar. From the article’s abstract: “Cervantes used different literary models to compose his work, following the method of so-called “composite imitation”; […]