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 […]
RS Grad Conference – Keynote Speaker Announced
The keynote speaker for the upcoming BU Romance Studies graduate conference will be Dr. Rachel Mesch, noted expert on 19th century French literature! Dr. Rachel Mesch received her BA from Yale College (1993), her MA from Columbia University (1995), and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (2000). A specialist in nineteenth-century French literature and […]
Maurer Presents at Harvard on Zóbel
Christopher Maurer, Professor of Spanish, gave a talk recently at Harvard University, where the Spanish painter Fernando Zóbel—founder of Spain’s Museo de Arte Abstracto—studied history and literature and translated Federico Garcia Lorca in the late 1940s. Organized by the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard, the event celebrated a Zóbel exhibition at the Prado (Madrid) and publication […]
Listernick Hosts Speaker on Covid & Camus + Rascism
Last fall, Dr. Joan Listernick invited Professor Debarati Sanyal of the University of California, Berkeley, to speak to both of her third semester French classes. The students read two of Dr. Sanyal’s blogs. One examined how Covid changed our reading of Camus, and how reading Camus can inform our understanding of Covid. The other addressed […]
Braden Clinger Publishes Article
Braden Clinger, a student in our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has published an article in the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, vol. 26. Braden’s article is titled “Mete uno, pero no todos:’ Gustavo Alatriste, Luis Buñuel y la adaptación de La casa de Bernarda Alba (1982)”. In this article Braden uses […]
Mathieu Hosts Webinar
Last December, Lionel Mathieu (Lecturer in French) offered a webinar with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris (CCIP) about how he designed a French for Professions course at BU. It was geared towards informing the (world) community of French instructors about ways to fashion a French for the Professions course, from its genesis […]
Bianconi Publishes 2 Book Chapters
Celia Bianconi, Master Lecturer in Portuguese, has contributed chapters to two recent books. For Conexões o Ensino de Portugueês no Estados Unidos, a study of the reasons students in the U.S. choose to learn Portuguese, she wrote the sixth chapter, titled “Motivação no aprendizado da língua portuguesa nos Estados Unidos: Um instrumento de reflexão curricular.” […]