Mesch Publishes Piece on Abuse by Academic Mentors
Rachel Mesch, Professor of French, has published an Essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education on abuse in academia, titled “What Do We Do With Monstrous Mentors?” In the essay, Dr. Mesch asks: “What do we do with monstrous mentors in academe? What do we do with the fact that their books still sit on […]
Fred Lafortune Publishes Short Story
Fred Lafortune, PhD student in French Language & Literature, has published his short story “White Dogs” in Transition Magazine (Issue T136). Fred tells us: “This story follows a young family—a mother and her 10-year-old son—as they grapple with the socio-economic effects of U.S. imperialism in Haiti. Set in a small village, the narrative revisits the […]
Sanchez Presents on Ana Lydia Vega
Jorge Sanchez, doctoral student in Hispanic Language & Literatures, recently presented at the Jornadas de Literatura Puertorriqueña 2024. He tells us: “My presentation analyzed Ana Lydia Vega’s prose, contrasting it with other Latin American writers of her time. I also discussed how her work connects with contemporary authors like Schweblin, Enríquez, and Rivera Garza, highlighting […]
Alumna Sarli Mercado Promoted
Sarli E. Mercado, a 2007 graduate of our doctoral program in Spanish Language & Literatures, has been promoted to Full Teaching Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Congratulations! Mercado is a literary critic and author of Cartografías del destierro: en torno a la poesía de Juan Gelman y Luisa Futoransky. (Cartographies of Exile: On the […]
French Film Festival Concludes Successful Run
The Albertine Cinémathèque Film Festival at Boston University has just wrapped up another successful season! Co-organizers Fargol Khosravanifard, Eleonora Mancuso, and Kara Saar were delighted with how the seven Francophone films selected this year brought their theme — Monsters: The Beasts Among Us — to life and were pleased to see the screening room filled […]
Alumna Brittany Bernard Presents at PAMLA Conference
This past Saturday, Brittany Bernard spoke on a panel discussing the works of French filmmaker, Agnès Varda at the PAMLA Conference in Palm Springs, California. Her paper, entitled “’The Medium is (Her) Message’: Translating the Off-Frame in Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7,” drew from economist Elvina Fesneau’s media study on the rise of […]
An Interview with Guila Clara Kessous
Guila Clara Kessous earned her PhD in French Language & Literature from the BU Romance Studies Department, graduating in 2008. She has spent her time since then as a human rights artist and academic. Kessous was nominated UNESCO Artist for Peace for her dedication to the arts and human rights, and Knight of Arts & […]
Italian Writer Dacia Maraini Presents at BU
On October 28, the Italian writer Dacia Maraini visited BU for a presentation of her autobiography, Vita mia (Rizzoli, 2023). Maraini held a public conversation with Jim Carter about her experience in a Japanese concentration camp during WWII, then she read from her book and took questions from the audience.
Gonzalez-Arias Publishes Article
Francisca Gonzalez-Arias’s article, “Translating Emilia Pardo Bazán in the United States: Women of the American Fin-de Siécle: Fanny Hale Gardiner and the ‘Isabellas,'” has just been published in Issue 93 of Observatorio Studies (Harvard University), “English-Spanish Translation in the US Context.” The article focuses on the life, social activism, and the translation process of Fanny […]
Cazenave Receives Advance Contract for Book
Assistant Professor of French Jennifer Cazenave has received an advance contract from Columbia University Press for her second book, Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive. The book moves from the 1930s to 1980s, charting an entangled history of disability and media haunted by overlooked traumas of social exclusion and cultural erasure.