RS Department Celebrates with Year-End Party
The Romance Studies Department today celebrated the end of another great year! Faculty and graduate students gathered for food and good cheer, and to recognize the hard work of everyone throughout the year.
Hernandez Wins Pardee Summer Fellowship
Congratulations to Rosana Hernandez! Rosana, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, has won a Summer Fellowship from the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Rosana will study the ways in which Hispanic literature represents the environmental impacts of extractive industries, in order to understand better discourses on […]
Effat Defends Dissertation
Congratulations to Amir Effat! Amir, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, successfully defended his dissertation today. Amir’s dissertation is titled On the Edge: Liminal Spaces in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós. From Amir’s abstract: Liminal spaces in Benito Pérez Galdós’s novels offer profound insights into the society, characters, and practices […]
Nogales Wins Princeton Library Research Grant
José Luis Nogales, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, has won a Princeton University Library Research Grant. José tells us: “The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University Library houses an extraordinary number of invaluable documents from some of the best well-known Latin American writers of the twentieth-century. […]
2019 RS Graduate Student Conference
This past weekend, the Romance Studies Graduate Students held their annual conference, on the theme “Technology & Literature.” Constance Vottero, who helped to organize the conference, says that “[The conference] went really well, I believe it was our best conference in the 3 years I have attended and helped organize it. We had really positive feedback […]
RS Students Win GRAF Awards
Three Romance Studies doctoral students – Gerardo Cruz, Laurie Garriga, and Edgardo Tormos – have won Graduate Research Abroad Fellowships (GRAF) from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Congratulations to all three!
Philip Noonan Wins GRS TF Award
“Philip is not only an excellent teacher, but an extraordinary colleague: generous, resourceful, with a passion for dialogue and the exchange of ideas, always willing to share and learn, grow and expand in new directions.” Verónica Rodríguez Ballesteros Philip Noonan, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, is being honored with an […]
Harrowitz Publishes Essay on Bassini’s Il romanzo di Ferrara
Nancy Harrowitz, Professor of Italian, has published a review essay of a new translation into English of Giorgio Bassani’s Il romanzo di Ferrara (The Novel of Ferrara). Il romanzo di Ferrara collects Bassini’s six major works, including his best known piece, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (made famous by the 1970 film of the same […]
BU Portuguese Students Visit Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School
On April 5th, Celia Bianconi, head of the Portuguese language program at Boston University, and Cristiane Soares, from the Portuguese Program at Tufts University, led an outreach trip to Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. This visit represents the continuation of an initiative that began last fall when the high school students visited Boston. Bianconi and Soares were […]
Jennifer Cazenave Pens Tribute to Varda
Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, has published a tribute to the recently departed Agnés Varda. Varda, a Belgium born French film director, helped pioneer the influential French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. She passed away on March 29 of this year. Cazenave’s tribute, “Une Française á Los Angeles: Remembering Agnés […]