Carrión Guerrero & LS 211 Transition to Remote Teaching
Elena Carrión Guerrero, coordinator for LS 211, shares the experience of the LS 211 team in the transition to remote teaching. “As LS 211 coordinator, I cannot thank my team enough: Yuliana Orta Ramos, Bruno Nassic Peric, Helena Talaya-Manso, Boris Corredor, Angélica Avcikurt & Alison Carberry. Their energy sharing ideas and putting them to work […]
French Faculty Make Video for Virtual Open House
With Covid-19 shutting down BU’s usual in-person April open houses for freshmen, the university has needed to get creative in order to reach out to our newest students. The French section faculty used the record functionality for a Zoom meeting to create a multi-person video to talk about the French major.
Vottero Wins BUCH Award!
The Boston University Center for the Humanities has selected Constance Vottero to receive a Clarimond Mansfield award and an Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial award. Congratulations, Constance!
RS Grad Students Hold Conference Online
Every year in the spring semester, the Romance Studies graduate students organize a conference around a theme pertinent to the study of literature. This year, impacts of Covid-19 forced them to move the conference from an in-person format to a virtual one on short-notice. Kelly Keenan, the lead organizer of the conference, tells us about […]
Corredor Creates Virtual Tour for LS 307 Reading
Continuing our series on RS faculty and the transition to remote teaching, today we share an innovative project developed by Boris Corredor, lecturer in Spanish. Corredor has created a virtual ‘tour’ of Mexico to supplement readings for his LS 307 class. He describes the project: I have developed an interactive virtual exercise for my LS 307 class […]
Costa Publishes Article on Dante
Emeritus Professor Dennis Costa (Italian & Comparative Literature) has recently seen his latest essay go to print. “’More than Watchmen’: Dante on Urgency in Ritual,” in Time’s Urgency, The Study of Time, vol. 16, eds. C. Montemayor and R. Daniel. (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2019), pp.280-290.
RS Faculty & TFs Move Teaching Online
“I would like to thank the LS111 instructors – Braden Clinger, Karina Sembe, Carlos Cruz, Liliane Dusewoir and Mildred Basker-Seigel – for being such great colleagues and for making this process of moving online so much easier and more effective.” Sue Griffin As the Covid-19 epidemic spreads around the world, one of its many impacts […]
Huckle Publishes Article Translation
Nick Huckle, Master Lecturer in French, has published a translation of an article. The piece appears in the journal, October. Here are the details: “Duchamp with Mallarmé” by Thierry Davila. October No. 171 Winter 2020.
RS Graduate Student Conference Moves Online!
Our annual Romance Studies Graduate Student Conference will not be stopped by the coronavirus! With assistance from CAS IT, Kelly Keenan and the other conference organizers have transitioned the conference to an online format.
Corredor Organizes NeMLA Panel on Alternative Approaches to Grammar Instruction
Boris Corredor, lecturer in Spanish, organized a panel at the 2020 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) conference on the subject of alternative approaches to traditional grammar instruction in foreign language learning. Among the participants was our alumna Isabel Castro, who gave a talk on “Engaging Millennials and GenZers with New England’s Spanish-speaking Communities and Organizations.” Corredor himself […]