RS Lecturers Present at MaFLA
Last Friday, Romance Studies once again traveled. This time, we went to Springfield, MA to be represented at the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association Conference (MaFLA). Spanish lecturers Mildred Basker-Seigel, Elena Carrión Guerrero & María Datel presented “Creating Curricula that Promotes an Inclusive Environment in the Classroom”.
Stephanie Shiflett Interviewed about Tournées
Stephanie Shiflett, who took the lead on organizing this year’s Tournées Film Festival, was interviewed on ‘Good Morning BU’, on BU’s student-run TV station. Way to go, Stephanie!
Annual Tournées Film Festival
The annual Tournées Film Festival has been a great success! The festival brings French language films to an American audience. This year’s festival includes screenings of six French films, along with panel discussions. The Tournées festival is organized each year by students in Romance Studies. Management of the festival was spearheaded this year by Stephanie Shiflett, a […]
Laura Mayron to Speak on Lorca
Laura Mayron, a student in our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, will be joining Professor Carlos Ramos at Wellesley College this evening to present in his seminar on Federico García Lorca. Laura will be speaking on Lorca’s queer surrealism in “Ode to Walt Whitman,” which was part of her undergraduate honors thesis, completed at […]
Romance Studies at 2018 NERALLT Conference
The 2018 New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology (NERALLT) conference was held right here at BU! Romance Studies was represented by Elena Carrión Guerrero & Maria Datel, who shared their innovative project: Talking to the Other: Authentic Conversations with the Hispanic World!
Opening for Asst. Prof. of Spanish in Colonial & Postcolonial Latin American Literature
The Department of Romance Studies is pleased to announce an opening for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Spanish with specialization in colonial and post-colonial Latin American Literature, with a July 2019 starting date. Please see the complete description below. The Department of Romance Studies at Boston University invites applications for the tenure-track position of Assistant […]
2018 RS Graduate Reception
The Romance Studies Department gathered our graduate students and faculty for our annual Graduate Student Reception last night (October 11). We introduced all of our new graduate students and enjoyed plenty of delicious food! Check out photos of the event below.
BU RS Alumni in the World
Dennis Costa Named Managing Editor of KronoScope
Prof. Dennis Costa has been appointed Managing Editor of the interdisciplinary, scholarly journal KronoScope / Journal for the Study of Time. He is also special editor of a KS issue appearing this fall, dedicated to medieval/pre-modern understandings of temporality. Costa has served for three years as Vice-President of the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST), which celebrated […]
Vanessa Fernandez Greene Publishes Article on Norah Lange
Vanessa Fernandez Greene, a 2011 graduate of our PhD program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has published on noted Argentine writer Norah Lange. Her article appears in the Spring 2018 issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language. From the abstract: Norah Lange created a girl-woman persona that both defied and conformed to social and […]