Hernandez Presents at NeMLA
Rosana Hernández, a second year student in our PhD in Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented a paper titled “Literatura y muerte: La vorágine como testimonio de la necropolítica extractiva” at the 2020 annual conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association. The paper was part of the panel “Extractivismo y necropolítica: nuevas lecturas de La vorágine,” chaired by […]
Borinsky Presents at NeMLA
Alicia Borinsky, Professor of Spanish, presented a paper at this year’s Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention titled “How to Choose One’s Friends,” in the panel “Borges and Religion.”
Latin American Student Essay Contest
The BU Center for Latin American Studies announces a Latin American Studies Student Essay Contest! The competition is open to all graduate and undergraduate students in all concentrations and classes at Boston University. Submissions are limited to one paper per student. Deadline: April 30. Full details on the Latin American Studies website.
Cazenave Book Wins Honorable Mention
Jennifer Cazenave’s book An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah has received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 Best First Book Award presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Onesta Passes Dissertation Defense
Cristina Onesta, doctoral student in our French Language & Literatures degree, has successfully passed the oral examination of her doctoral dissertation. Congratulations, Cristina!
Gerardo Cruz Presents at UNAM
Gerardo Cruz, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented a talk titled “Postnationalism and Posthumanism in the Graphic Novel La burbuja de Bertold” at the 2nd International Congress of Contemporary Latin American Narratives, organized by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City (February 26-28).
Tormos Presents at NeMLA
Edgardo Tormos, a fifth year student in our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented a paper titled “Reveling in Filth: Ecocriticism & Biopolitics in Independent Mexican Cinema of the 1970s” at the 2020 annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). Tormos’s paper was part of the panel “Biopolitics of Nature: […]
Clinger Talks at NeMLA
Braden Clinger, a second year student in our PhD in Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented a paper at the 2020 annual conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Clinger gave a talk titled “Hicieron disparos de wínchester: La vorágine como Western.”
Sembe Talks Twice at NeMLA
Karina Sembe, doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, gave two talks at the 2020 Northeast Modern Language Association annual conference. Karina tells us: “On Thursday, I talked biopolitics of race in Modernist literature across the Americas (“Race in Modernism across the Americas: Revisiting Biopolitics of Blackness in Modernist Manifestos.”) It was a […]
Garriga Presents at NeMLA
Laurie Garriga, doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented at the 2020 Northeast Modern Language Association annual conference, as part of a roundtable on women as artistic creators. Garriga’s presentation was tiled “Isla ilustrada, tres artistas puertorriqueñas en Instagram,” and focused on the work of three illustrators from Puerto Rico who challenge […]