Cristina Onesta Presents at RMMLA
Cristina Onesta, a student in our doctoral French Language & Literature program, presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) convention in Cheyenne. Her paper, “Des migrants aux fantômes…la proximité de l’écriture, l’écriture de la proximité”, was part of a panel titled “Writing on Vulnerable Subjects: When Self-Writing Becomes Other”, organized by the association […]
Laura Mayron Presents at ACTFL
Laura Mayron, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, tells us about her recent trip to present at the ACTFL conference in New Orleans. My trip to New Orleans for the annual American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) conference was filled with the spirit of collaboration from the start: […]
Patrick Autréaux to Return to BU Romance Studies
“Through a Writer’s Eye” follows “a writer’s apprenticeship through medicine, science, and literature.What does it mean to become a writer after devoting one’s life to science and medicine? What are the resonances between scientific reasoning and literary creation? Students will learn about the transformative power of writing when facing personal challenges, and trauma.” Award winning […]
BU Romance Studies in New Orleans & New York
In a show of strength by our Romance Studies language programs, a number of members of the Department gave presentations at the convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in New Orleans. Laura Mayron, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, spoke on “Queer Accessibility: Gender Neutral […]
Max Ubelaker Andrade Publishes on Borges
Max Ubelaker Andrade, a 2010 graduate of our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has completed a new book, Borges Beyond the Visible. From the publisher: Borges Beyond the Visible presents radically new readings of some of Jorge Luis Borges’s most celebrated stories. Focusing on the tensions between fiction and intimacy, Max Ubelaker Andrade […]
Maria Datel & Elena Carrion-Guerrero at ACTFL
At the 2018 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention & World Languages Expo in New Orleans, BU Romance Studies Spanish Lecturers, Elena Carrión Guerrero & María Datel, presented on the Hispanic Women’s Movements and challenged participants to integrate #GenderEquity practices & materials into their #Spanish classroom. Thank you for promoting […]
WLL: Boston Area Pedagogy Conference 2019
The Department of World Languages & Literatures at Boston University invites interested faculty from all Boston Area Consortia institutions to participate in the Boston Area Pedagogy Conference, an inter-institutional dialogue on the teaching of languages, literatures, cultures, and cinema. This conference will provide opportunities for us and our colleagues to reflect on, share, and showcase different […]
Jenai Engelhard Presents on Houellebecq’s Soumission
Jenai Engelhard Humphreys presented a paper, “Sous-mission and the Mission Civilisatrice: Houellebecq’s Parody of Empire and Decadence,” at the University of Oxford, Christchurch, at a conference titled Exoticism, Colonialism and Decadence around the fin de siècle. This conference, organized by Dr. Jennifer Yee of Oxford, explored the intersections between ideas of decadence and the […]
Addio, Dennis Costa
“[Dennis Costa] developed the department’s first comparative literature courses, gave life and passion to the Core, brought madrigals and sacred music, raised a ton of money for Italian Studies and for Mugar, and drew the Department intellectually together with other departments and disciplines here and abroad. As our colleague he has always been known for […]
Romance Studies Graduate Student Conference: Technology & Literature
Boston University Romance Studies Graduate Student Conference TECHNOLOGY & LITERATURE Saturday, April 27th, 2019 Call for Papers What is literature? What is twitterature? These questions have never been as pertinent as they are in today’s political climate. Technology has put supercomputers in our pockets and allowed for constant connection to a global internet. It has […]