RS Graduate Students Hold Conference
On Saturday, April 15, graduate students from Romance Studies hosted a hybrid graduate conference on the theme of “Illusion & Delusion.” We heard presentations from students coming from as near as our own BU Romance Studies department to as far as University of St. Andrew’s in Scotland. Dr. Rachel Mesch gave a wonderful and illuminating keynote […]
Mayron Presents at ACLA
Laura Mayron attended ACLA 2023 in Chicago to present her paper “Man in the Moon: Representations of the Self in Federico García Lorca’s Dedicatorias.” Part of the “Modernist Prolegomena” panel, Laura presented alongside several former advisees of Department Chair Nicolás Fernández-Medina. Her paper explored Lorca’s dedicatory letters and drawings in a range of his works given […]
Giving Day Success for RS & O’Connor Fund!
Romance Studies and the Carrie O’Connor fund had a great day yesterday for BU’s annual Giving Day! The Romance Studies Department received support from 37 donors, and the Carrie O’Connor fund raised a tremendous $13,420 from 32 donors. The funds raised will support a wide range of activities at the department, and the O’Connor funds […]
Listernick Gives Talk at NeMLA
Dr. Joan Listernick, one of our PT lecturers in French, presented a paper at the recent NeMLA conference in Buffalo, New York. Her topic was the theme of resilience in the posthumous unpublished memoir of her Parisian aunt, Dr. Mireille Zonis (1936-2021), a pediatrician. Dr. Zonis had fled her native Bessarabia during the Shoah, living […]
Jorge Sanchez Presents at Conference in Colombia
Jorge Sanchez, a student in our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, gave a paper at the XXXII Congreso Internacinal de Literatura y Estudios Hispanicos, in Colombia. Jorge’s paper is titled, “Niñas marcadas: exploración de la violencia en los cuentos “Roberto”, de Agustina Bazterrica, “Fin de curso”, de Mariana Enriquez y “Mariposas”, de Samanta […]
José Quispe Presents at NeMLA
José Quispe Coronel, a doctoral student in our graduate program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, presented a paper at the 2023 NeMLA conference. José’s paper was titled, “Un no a la resignación o la intransigencia del deseo en Luis Cernuda.” José tells us: “The paper focused on analyzing the influence of six poets of the […]
RS Professors Recognized at BUCH Book Celebration
Congratulations to Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, James Iffland, and Christopher Maurer, who were celebrated at the annual BU Center for Humanities Faculty Book Celebration on March 23, for the publication of their recent books: James Iffland, Para llegar a Roque Dalton: pequeños infiernos y otros paraísos (estudio político-poético) TOMO I & II, Editorial de la […]
Huckle Publishes Translations
Nicholas Huckle, a Master Lecturer in French, provided translations for three of the essays in the recent English publication of Yve-Alain Bois: An Oblique Autobiography (edited by Jordan Kantor). The book is a collection of essays by the French academic Yve-Alain Bois, an expert on 20th century European and American art. Huckle translated the following […]
Alumnus Matthew Yost Publishes Article
Matthew Yost, a 2017 graduate of our doctoral program in French Language & Literature, has published an article in the journal French Studies. Yost’s article is titled “Maps to the Other: The carte galante Tradition and Émile Zola’s ‘Dossiers préparatoires’.
5th Annual 2nd Language Learning & Disabilities Conference Coming Soon!
The Second-Language Learning Disabilities Conference is a project on inclusive classrooms. An inclusive classroom is one where all the differences students bring are represented in the curriculum. Among these are learning differences, which add another challenge to the efforts of rethinking our curriculums, addressing the inequality between different groups, and building more inclusive classrooms. The challenge […]