College graduates with foreign language skills and better job prospects
CNN Money recently published an article about how college graduates with foreign language skills will have better job prospects.
La lettre, le théâtral et les femmes dans la fiction d’aujourd’hui by Frédérique Donovan
Department of Romance Studies alumna in French and current part-time lecturer in French, Fréderique Donovan, publishes book.
El monasterio de Cardeña y el inicio de la épica cidiana by Professor Irene Zaderenko
A new book by Professor of Spanish Irene Zaderenko—El monasterio de Cardeña y el inicio de la épica cidiana—The Monastery of Cardeña and the Beginning of the Cidian Epic—attempts to resolve the mystery of the authorship of Spain’s greatest epic poem, the Poema de mio Cid. Published by the prestigious Servicio de Publicaciones of the […]
Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Danny Erker, featured on BU Today
Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Danny Erker’s linguistic research on the Spanish spoken in Boston is featured in BU Today.
Commencement 2013
Among 2013 Ph.D. graduates were Ariane Ngabeu (pictured), Leslie Harkema, Alison Carberry and Peter Mahoney. Ngabeu directs Middlebury College’s C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in Cameroon. Harkema is Assistant Professor of Spanish, Yale University; Carberry, Lecturer in Spanish at Boston University; and Mahoney, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Stonehill College.
BU’s new Study Abroad program in Rio de Janeiro got off to a great start this summer
Romance Studies Honors Best Essays
At our end-of-year-party, a number of graduate students were awarded essay prizes in Spanish and French. Spanish essay prizes went to Vasileios Ioannou, Aura Dovidjenko, Adel Faitaninho, and Gerry Dunn, and French essay prizes to Sophia Mizouni and Isadora Nicholas. In “Mudarra González, un héroe castellano,” Vasileios Ioannou brings to the fore the problem of […]
Professor Adela Pineda: New Perspectives on the Mexican Revolution
Prof. Adela Pineda of B.U., Prof. Jaime Marroquín of George Washington University, and Magdalena Mieri have co-edited an important book, Open Borders to a Revolution, offering new perspectives on the immediate and long-lasting effects of the Mexican Revolution in the United States in such spheres as diplomacy, politics, and intellectual thought. Prof. Pineda contributed an […]
Adel Faitaninho wins Department’s first Teaching Award for Portuguese
Adel Faitaninho has been awarded the Department’s first TF Teaching Award for Portuguese. Adel, a doctoral student in the Hispanic Language and Literature program, taught LP 123 (Intensive First Year Portuguese) this Spring. She participated last summer in our Department’s StarTalk program –a professional development program for instructors of Portuguese– and will do so again […]
Students and Professor Discuss the Boston Marathon Bombing
Professor Nancy Harrowitz, who is offering a course this semester on the Holocaust “as historical reality, metaphor, and generative force in literature,” wrote last week to her students in LX281/RN385 Holocaust Literature and Film, who were deeply affected by the Boston Marathon bombing. Together, they pondered the meaning of the recent events in relation to […]