Erin Lamm Publishes Translation
Erin Lamm (2016 Graduate, PhD in French Language & Literature) has just published a combined translation of Algerian author Maïssa Bey’s Do You Hear in the Mountains . . . ? and Under the Jasmine, At Night with the University of Virginia Press. The work draws on Lamm’s doctoral thesis, which she defended in 2017. […]
Lionel Mathieu Publishes Book Review
Lionel Mathieu, Lecturer in French, has published a book review of Enregistrer la parole et écrire la langue dans la diachronie du français, a compendium of articles examining the historical evolution of the French language in both spoken and written form. Mathieu concludes: In sum, this book is to be commended for its breadth of coverage […]
Tracy Heranic Presents at Conference in China
Tracy Heranic, part-time lecturer in French, presented this past summer at a conference in China. Tracy says: I participated, in conjunction with researchers from Sun Yat-sen University, Harbin Normal University, The University of Queensland, and Université de Nantes, in a thematic research and discussion session dealing with Heritage across Linguistic Borders: Semantic Approaches of Intangible […]
Nicholas Huckle Translates French Art Historian’s Letters
Nicholas Huckle, Master Lecturer in French, is translating from the French a number of letters written by the art historian Hubert Damisch, penned to the American art historian Meyer Schapiro. These letters, part of a long-running correspondence between the two well-known academics (Schapiro wrote to Damisch in English), date from the early 1970s. They cover mostly […]
Jennifer Cazenave Publishes Essay in L.A. Review of Books
Jennifer Cazenave, assistant professor in French, has published an essay in the L.A. Review of Books titled “Claude Lanzmann’s Ghosts”. The essay discusses the making of Claude Lanzmann’s monumental nine and a half hour film Shoah, focusing on the copious material that had to be excluded from the film. Cazenave writes: [Lanzmann] devoted 12 years to […]
BU Romance Studies Welcomes New Graduate Students
The Romance Studies Department is delighted to welcome seven new graduate students to our community! French Language & Literature Brittany Prescott Evgeniya Prikhodko Hispanic Language & Literatures Gonzalo Carretero Martinez Braden Clinger Mikal de la Mata Cruz Rosana Hernandez Nieto Karina Sembe
Romance Studies Kicks Off a New Year!
The Romance Studies Department kicked off the new academic year with our annual Orientation on Thursday and Friday, August 30 and 31. Check out photos from the event below!
Celia Bianconi Leads STARTALK Teacher Training
Celia Bianconi, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese, led a STARTALK funded Portuguese Teacher Training program during summer 2018. The program, which lasted for 5 weeks, successfully trained 15 K-12 Portuguese teachers from all over the United States. STARTALK is a U.S. government funded program with the mission of increasing the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, […]
Celia Bianconi Presents at BRASA Conference
Celia Bianconi, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese, participated as a presenter of “Turma da Mônica®” and a Tomboy Childhood: Queer Theory and Feminism Gender Role Theorization through Cultural Manifestations in Brazilian Comic Strips, during the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) conference July 26th -28th. The conference was hosted in the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) of Rio de […]
Laura Mayron Gives Paper on Gender Neutral Pronouns
Laura Mayron, a PhD student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented a paper on Gender-Neutral Pronouns in Romance Language Classrooms at the Queering Academia conference held this summer at the University of Westminster. From Laura’s abstract: The gender neutral pronouns “they/them/theirs” have become a part of the English-language mainstream as a singular pronoun […]