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Laurie Garriga Researches in Puerto Rican Archives

Laurie Garriga travelled this summer to Puerto Rico, with sponsorship from a GRS Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship, to conduct research at the University of Puerto Rico. Laurie is a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program. Laurie tells us: I conducted research at the University of Puerto Rico, mainly at Juan Ramón Jiménez’s […]

Sarai Garcia Presents at IRSCL

Sarai Garcia, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented this August at the 24th biennial congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature. Sarai relates her experience: At the 24th Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature in Stockholm, Sweden, I presented my paper, “The Sounds and […]

Jennifer Cazenave Publishes Book

Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, has published An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s « Shoah », with SUNY Press. Focusing on hundreds of hours of unused testimonies left on the cutting room floor, the book retraces the making of this acclaimed 1985 Holocaust documentary. You can view a short trailer to learn more about the […]

Evgenia Prikhodko Participates in the Institut d’Avignon

Evgenia Prikhodko, one of our doctoral students in French Language & Literature, participated this summer in the Institut d’Avignon, with funding from GRS and the Ernest A. Jackson Fellowship. Evgeniya tells us about her experience: “I consider being a participant in the summer program Institut d’Avignon a unique experience that I was lucky to have. […]

Martín Santo Publishes Book

Romance Studies alumna Noemí Martín Santo has published a new book – a scholarly edition of  the Account of the Kingdom of Nippon, by Bernardino de Ávila. The work was written in the 17th century and has not been published in its entirety since – two Franciscan historians began working on an edition in the 1930’s, […]

Tormos Researches Film in Mexico

Supported by a GRAF award from the BU Graduate School, Edgardo Tormos, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, spent the past month in Mexico conducting research toward his dissertation. Edgardo’s dissertation examines the outburst of independent film in the aftermath of the 1968 massacre of student protesters in Tlatelolco.

Nassi Peric Delivers Talk

Bruno Nassi Peric delivered a talk this past weekend titled, “La casa de los náufragos (1987), de Guillermo Rosales:  un viaje desde al autoexilio hacia los extramuros de la sociedad de consumo y hacia la categoría de héroe irónico”, at the 55th Conference of the Canadian Association of Hispanists. Nassi Peric is a second year […]

Vottero Presents at African Literature Association

Constance Vottero, a doctoral student in our French Language & Literature program, presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association. Constance’s paper is titled “Social & Literary Networks – Relationality & Intersectionality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:  Americanah & Léonora Miano:  Blues Pour Elise.”