Joss Successfully Defends Dissertation
Congratulations to Khadija El Karfi Joss, who successfully defended her dissertation on May 14! Khadija will graduate this August with a PhD in French Language & Literature. Khadija’s dissertation is titled, Excavating the Silenced History of Slavery & Race in Morocco. From her abstract: “Excavating the Silenced History of Slavery and Race in Morocco examines how […]
Burgon Researches in Paris
One of our French PhD students, Haleigh Burgon, recently travelled to France to conduct research on Agnès Varda. She tells us: “Thanks to the Jackson Fund Fellowship, I was able to take a quick research trip to Paris last week. I saw the temporary exhibit Le Paris d’Agnès Varda de-ci, de-là, which focused on the […]
Bryzys & Carretero Martinez Present at International Conference on Medieval Studies
Gonzalo Carretero Martínez and Wiktoria Bryzys both presented papers at the recent 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI (8-10 May 2025).
RS Department Honors TFs
On Friday, May 9, the Romance Studies Department honored three of our teaching fellows with our annual Award for Teaching Excellence. The 2025 winners of the award are: French Haleigh Burgon Spanish Fernanda Alves dos Santos Íñigo Huércanos Esparza Congratulations to all three!
Cazenave Wins Award for Graduate Education
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Cazenave for winning the 2025 CAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education! From the citation read at the presentation of the award on April 30: Because of her passion for her subjects and her wholehearted support of her students as both academics and human beings, Jennifer Cazenave’s graduate students gain […]
Lopez Publishes Essay
Alejandro Lopez, one of our Spanish PhD students, has published an essay with the Observatorio del Instituto Cervantes at Harvard. The essay is titled, “Literary Shifts. The Obscene Bird Sings Again: Tale of a Tortured Translation.” From the abstract: “This essay examines the translation history of José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night and its impact on […]
Sanchez Presents at Brown University Conference
Jorge Sanchez, a PhD student in Spanish, resently presented his paper titled, “Old Habits, New Horrors: Luciferian Figures in Contemporary Latin American Horror Literature from the Southern Cone.” The presentation analyzed the figure of the Devil in selected works by Francisco Espínola, José Donoso, Abelardo Castillo, Liliana Heker, and Luciano Lamberti.
LF 307 Class Cooks a French Meal!
Students in Maria Bobroff’s LF 307 Food & Culture in France recently completed their final projects for the course: the making of a three-course meal. Three teams, each consisting of 4-5 students, proposed a theme for their dinner, found recipes that were doable within the allotted budget and timeframe, shopped for ingredients, cooked and served […]
Sembe Presents at 19th Century Studies Association Conference
Karina Sembe, PhD student in Spanish, recently presented at the 46th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association in New Orleans, LA and received an award for her paper “Across National Borders, Across Color Lines: How a Brazilian Soldier Became a Poster Child for U.S. Abolitionism.” The conference featured multiple interdisciplinary panels, networking sessions, and […]
Mancuso Presents at Society of Dix-Neuviémistes
The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes held its annual conference from March 31 to April 2 in Durham, United Kingdom. This year’s conference was organized around the theme of DomiNation, inviting scholars to reflect on structures of power, identity, and resistance in nineteenth-century French and Francophone literature and culture. French PhD candidate Eleonora Mancuso presented her paper […]