Cazenave Interviewed About Her Book
Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, has been interviewed by the New Books Network about her recent book, An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah.
Dorothy Kelly to Publish Book
Prof. of French Dorothy Kelly has a new book forthcoming in 2021, titled The Living Death of Modernity: Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola, to be published by Legenda press.
French Alumna Exhibits Artwork
Marie-Cécile Schiermeier, a graduate of our doctoral program in French Language & Literature, currently has an exhibition of her artwork on display at the Dome Gallery in Cambridge. The exhibition is titled “In the Moment: Re-imagined Landscapes,” and will be on display through the end of January, 2020. Schiermeier graduated with her doctorate from BU […]
Huckle Publishes Translation
Nicholas Huckle, Master Lecturer in French, has published a translation into English of The Barbarian Invasions: A Genealogy of the History of Art, by Éric Michaud. The book was first published in France in 2015 by Gallimard, and the English translation is with MIT Press. Michaud shows how the history of art, starting with the nineteenth […]
Anita Savo to Join BU Romance Studies
BU Romance Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Anita J. Savo to our professorial ranks! Dr. Savo will take a position as an Assistant Professor of Spanish, with a focus on Early Spanish Literature, beginning in the fall 2020 semester.
Bente Shoen Defends Dissertation
Congratulations to Bente Shoen for her successful defense of her dissertation project, titled Digital Picaresque Studies & the Academia Picaresca!
Cazenave Speaks at the Afro-Caribbean SUNART Festival
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Romance Studies Chair Odile Cazenave spoke at the Afro-Caribbean SUNAR festival in Aix-en-Provence. Cazenave was joined by Céline Gahungu and Yahia Belaskri. The theme of the festival was “African Literature and the Fight for Freedom.”
Hoecherl-Alden Wins Brooks Award
Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, Assistant Dean and Director of Language Instruction, is the recipient of the Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). The Nelson Brooks award recognizes individuals who have “contributed significantly to the teaching of culture in the foreign language classroom” whose impact […]
Effat Wins Dissertation Award
Recent alumnus Amir Effat has won the Premio Peter Bly award from the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas for the best dissertation in 2019 on a topic related to Galdós, for his dissertation titled On the Edge: Liminal Spaces in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós. Great work, Amir!
Maurer Speaks at García Lorca / Lou Reed Event
On November 20, Christopher Maurer helped celebrate the 30th anniversary of Lou Reed’s album New York and the 90th of Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York at the New York Public Library, with writer Jonathan Cott, poets Monica de la Torre and Anne Waldman, and performers Laurie Anderson, Thurston Moore, and Don Fleming.