Clinger Presents at NeMLA
Braden Clinger presented his paper “‘A callar he dicho’: Bernarda Alba en la casa de Alatriste” at the recent meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), in a panel called “Tradición e innovación: la adaptación de obras literarias en el mundo hispánico”. This paper, based on archival research and an interview, focused on the […]
Pineda Publishes Book Chapter
Adela Pineda, Professor of Spanish, has penned a chapter for the Historia de las literaturas en México (Siglo XIX), published recently by Mexico’s National University. Pineda’s chapter is titled “La imaginación ecuménica de fin de siglo y la Revista Azul (1894 – 1896).”
Sembe Presents at NeMLA
At the recent conference of the Northeast Modern Lnaguage Association (NeMLA), Karina Sembe, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented two papers and also chaired a discussion panel. Karina’s two papers were titled: “Violence, Masculinity, & Vernacular Empiricism in Cidade de Deus” “The Natural Man & the New Negro: Reclaiming/Erasing the […]
Datel’s LS 309 Hosts Cherríe Moraga
Last Friday (March 19), Maria Datel’s LS 309 class hosted Cherríe Moraga, a writer and activist involved, in particular, with indigenous women’s rights. The students asked her about her books, activism in the feminist Chicanx movement and in La Red Xicana Indígena, an advocacy network of Xicanas working in education, the arts, spiritual practice, and […]
FT French Lecturer – Deadline Extended!
UPDATE: The deadline to apply for this position has been extended to March 31. — The Department of Romance Studies at Boston University seeks a full-time Lecturer in French, beginning July 1, 2021 to join a dynamic and collaborative language program. Responsibilities include teaching French language from beginning to advanced levels and coordination of multi-sectioned language […]
Odile Cazenave in Conversation with Veronique Tadjo
Odile Cazenave, Professor of French, recently joined a webinar with writer Veronique Tadjo to discuss Tadjo’s book In the Company of Men, a novel centering on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a few years ago. Tadjo, who comes from Côte d’Ivoire, is a noted novelist, artist, and academic whose work has been published in […]
Shruti Gupta Conducts UROP on Achi’ Cultural Memory
Shruti Gupta is a graduating Senior studying Political Science with minors in Spanish and Flute performance. She enjoyed learning languages growing up, but classes in Colonial Mexico and Latin American Literature brought her to study Spanish at the college-level. In Summer 2020, she completed a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) with Professor David Colmenares, and […]
Alum Livingstone Pens Essay in WaPo
Victoria Livingstone (PhD in Hispanic Language and Literatures, 2015), now Associate Director of ESL at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, tells of parenting during the pandemic—and the need for parental leave– in an essay in the Washington Post. Victoria has written on Latin American literature and other subjects in Asymptote and in other journals.
Romance Studies Seeks FT Italian Lecturer
The Department of Romance Studies at Boston University seeks a full-time Lecturer in Italian, beginning July 1, 2021. Responsibilities include teaching and curricular development from beginning to advanced levels of language courses, and cultural studies in some of the following areas: Italian film and media; contemporary literature; current politics, migrants, second-generation Italians (from Ethiopian, Somali as […]
2nd Language Learning & Disabilities Conference Goes Global
This past weekend, BU romance Studies organized our third annual 2nd Language Learning & Disabilities conference. With the Covid epidemic still ongoing, the event was held in a virtual format, enabling participation and presentations from around the globe. Check out the map below showing where participants were located! As always, the conference strove to provide […]