Sembe to Teach at Northeastern
Karina Sembe, who graduated this past May with a PhD in Hispanic Language & Literatures from our Department, will be headed to Northeastern University this fall, as a Postdoctoral Associate. Dr. Sembe will teach Writing and Rhetoric at Northeastern’s Department of English. Congratulations, Karina!
Earls Studies at the Institut d’Avignon
Alex Earls, one of our French Language and Literature doctoral students, participated this summer in the Institut d’Avignon program, which was made possible by funding from the Ernest A. Jackson fund. Alex tells us about their experience: “Over my time in Avignon I got to take two courses, one on memory in francophone literature and […]
Maurer Receives American Archivists Award
Christopher Maurer (Boston University), Andrew A. Anderson (University of Virginia), and Melissa Dinverno (Indiana University – Bloomington) are the 2025 recipients of the Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) for their work on Memory in Motion: Lorca and the Archive / Memoria en movimiento: Lorca […]
Congratulations to 2 Summer Graduates!
Congratulations to Tijana Cupic and Gonzalo Carretero Martínez, who both successfully defended their dissertations this summer! Tijana’s dissertation is titled, Hidden Solidarities: Transnational Affect in Mexican/Latinx and Post-Yugoslav Migration Literature. From her abstract: “This dissertation explores the affective politics of migration through a comparative literary approach to two immigration flows: migrations from Mexico to the […]
Burgon Pens Review of Lesueur Book
Haleigh Burgon, a student in our French PhD program, has recently published a book review. Haleigh tells us: “I’m thrilled to share that my latest book review has just been published in the journal Nineteenth-Century French Studies! The volume I reviewed—Introduction à l’œuvre de Daniel Lesueur: “Conscience féminine élève la voix!” by Diana Holmes and […]
Wells Promoted to Full Professor
Courtney Wells, a 2010 PhD graduate of our French Language & Literature program, has been promoted to Professor of French, Francophone, and Italian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where he has taught since 2012. Congratulations, Dr. Wells!
RS Celebrates Graduates, Award Winners
The Romance Studies Department celebrated our 2025 graduates and undergraduate award winners at our departmental convocation on Friday, May 16! PhD Graduates Doctor of Philosophy in French Language & Literature Khadija El Karfi Joss Dissertation: Excavating the Silenced History of Slavery and Race in Morocco Kelly Elizabeth Keenan Dissertation: Rewriting Body and Word: Gender and […]
Bryzys Wins the Nancy F. Marino Prize
At the recent 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Wiktoria Bryzys’s paper, titled “Valencia del Cid y Balansiya de al-Waqqašī: Heterotopía en la Estoria de España,” was selected as the winner of the fifth annual Nancy F. Marino Prize for Best Essay in Hispanomedieval Studies, announced by La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, […]
BUCH Honors 4 RS Students
Four students from Romance Studies were recently honored by the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH) in a ceremony held at the Metcalf Trustee Center Ballroom on May 13. Graduate Khadija Joss, a PhD student in French, received the Helen G. Allen Humanities Award, and The Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial Award. Íñigo […]
Cazenave & Avcikurt Promoted
The Romance Studies Department is pleased to announce the promotion of two of our faculty members! Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, will be promoted to Associate Professor of French. Angelica Avcikurt, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, will be promoted to Master Lecturer in Spanish. Congratulations to both on their well deserved promotions!