Romance Studies Hosts Talk on Belgian Comics

Romance Studies is delighted to have hosted a talk by Willem de Graeve, Associate Director of the Belgian Comics Art Museum. De Graeve spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday, November 6 and then to a packed house at Boston University on Thursday, November 7. He discussed such topics as:  Why has the […]

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Shiflett Defends Dissertation

Congratulations to Stephanie Shiflett! Stephanie successfully defended her dissertation on November 18 and will graduate with a Doctor of Philosophy in French Language & Literature in January 2020. Stephanie worked with Prof. Irit Kleiman on her dissertation, as well as Tom Conley of Harvard. Her dissertation is titled Confessional Fragments:  Religious Belief Expressed Through Body […]

Mathieu Pens Book Review

Lionel Mathieu, Lecturer in French, has published a review of Language, Literacy, & Technology by Richard Kern. 

2019 Grad Reception

Romance Studies welcomed our six new graduate students to the RS community with our annual Graduate Student Reception. Professors and students enjoyed an evening of wonderful conversation and a delicious dinner of Indian food!

Pedro Lasarte Publishes Book

Pedro Lasarate, a retired BU Professor of Spanish, has published a new book – a critical edition of the complete poems of Mateo Rosas de Oquendo. Lasarte, a native of Peru, taught for many years at Boston University. His teaching and research focusses on the history and literatures of the viceroyalties of Peru and Mexico.

MFA in Literary Translation Approved

We are delighted to announce that a new MFA in Literary Translation has been officially approved by Boston University! The program will be based in the Department of World Languages & Literatures, but will invite and depend upon the active involvement of faculty from all Humanities departments, especially Romance Studies, Classics, Creative Writing, English, and […]

Cazenave Presents her Book

Jennifer Cazenave presented her book, An Archive of the Catastrophe:  The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, at the American University of Paris. In her talk, Jennifer told the story of the making of Shoah between 1973 and 1985, with a particular focus on Lanzmann’s engagement with debates surrounding the emergence of Holocaust memory in Israel, […]