Gonzalez-Arias Publishes 2 Translations
Francisca Gonzalez-Arias has translations of two short stories by Cristina Rivera Garza that will be published later this year. The first is “Autoethnography with Another” (“Autoetnografía con otro”), which will be published by Dorothy: A Publishing Project, in a collection of short stories by Rivera Garza. The second is “Dream Man” (El hombre que siempre soñó”), […]
2nd Language Learning & Disabilities Conference – Coming Up Soon!
Our annual 2nd Language Learning & Disabilities conference is just one week away! Click on the image above to register, or take a look at the schedule.
El Karfi Hosts ‘Vitamin PhD’
Khadija El Karfi will host season 4 of BU’s Vitamin PhD! This season, co-hosted by El Karfi and Kiloni Quiles-Franco, follows up on the “21 Days of Unlearning Racism and Learning Anti-Racism” curriculum from Summer 2020. In conversations with student organizations, faculty members, and staff from across BU schools and colleges, Kiloni and Khadija discuss […]
Sign-Up for Tournées Film Access
To gain access to the Tournées Film Festival screenings, please add your name and email to the sign-up sheet for each film you would like to see. Check out the links below for the sign-up sheets and for information on how to gain early access to some of the films! Portrait of a Lady on […]
Tournées Schedule Announced
The schedule for the annual Tournées French film festival has been announced. Looks like we’ve got some great films coming up!
Mehlman Publishes Memoir
Jeffrey Mehlman, recently retired professor of French, has published a new memoir – Second Thoughts: Further Adventures in the French Trade. The book is a sequel of sorts to Mehlman’s 2010 book, Adventures in the French Trade: Fragments Toward a Life.
Dusewoir Leads Walking Tours
Did you know that our very own Senior Lecturer Liliane Duséwoir is one the 18 professors that BU hosts on campus as Faculty-in-Residence, and that she won the 2019 Award for Outstanding Service to Residence Life ? In her role, she designs programs that provide students with a residential experience that is interdisciplinary, innovative, and meaningful. […]
Tournées Film Festival to Go Virtual!
The annual Tournées Film Festival, typically held in-person each fall term, will this year instead be held in virtual format in spring ’21. The schedule of films is below – more details to come. February 22: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Céline Sciamma, 2019) February 25: O que arde (Oliver Laxe, 2019) March […]
Chazal Publishes on Pedagogy
Kirby Chazal, Senior Lecturer in French, has published a study in an edited volume of Studies in Language and Social Interaction.* Her study, titled “Multimodal mechanisms for mobilizing students to give pre-structured responses in French L2 classroom interaction,” examines classroom discourse from a conversation analytic perspective. The findings provide insights into how the multimodal management of pedagogical artifacts, such as digital […]
BU Global House ’21-’22 Applications Open
The 2021-2022 application for Global House is now live! All 4 Romance Studies languages are offered. Head on over to the Global House Website for more info. The priority deadline this year is December 14th.