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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.

French Film Festival Hosts Author Victor Dixen

The Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival, organized by graduate students in French, recently welcomed acclaimed author Victor Dixen for a special event. Dixen, a two-time Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire winner known for his fantasy novels, joined Professor Jennifer Cazenave in a post-screening discussion of The Animal Kingdom (2023). Directed by Thomas Cailley, the film explores a society […]

Noudou Interviewed About SDWE

Anik Noudou, a student in our French PhD program, recently travelled to Africa as the Secretary General of an NGO called SDWE (Sustainable Development & Women Empowerment), for its offiical launching ceremony. SDWE is an organization that works for the empowerment of women around the world. With its physical presence in North America and Africa […]

Fernández-Medina Publishes Book

Nicolás Fernández-Medina, Professor of Spanish and Iberian Studies, has published a new translation with Clemson University Press. The book is titled Morbidities and “The Concept of The New Literature”, and includes translations of two books (both originally published in Spanish) by the late Ramón Gómez de la Serna, along with an introduction by Fernández-Medina. From […]

Cazenave Co-Edits Book, Saar Contributes Article

Earlier this summer, a special issue of Interculturel Francophonies was released, focussed on the Mauritian Writer Ananda Devi, and co-edited by Odile Cazenave (Professor of French here at BU) and Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François (Penn State University). Ananda Devi was the 2024 recipient of the Neustadt literary award. The volume encompasses contributions by both academics and […]

Noudou Successfully Defends Dissertation

Anik Noudou, a doctoral student in our French Language & Literature program, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation this past Monday. Noudou’s dissertation is titled, A Question of Gaze:  The Representation of Women in Fracophone African Novels & Films Forty Years After Mariama Bâ. From the dissertation abstract: “The portrayal of women in Francophone African literature […]

BU Romance Studies at the 19th Century French Studies Conference

BU Romance Studies was well represented at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, hosted by Duke University Sept 18-20. The theme of the conference was, “Producing and Receiving the 19th Century.” Prof. Rachel Mesch organized a panel on “Producing Colonial Spaces” and gave a talk entitled, “Gender Play: Orientalism at Home at the Fin de Siècle.” […]