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.
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 […]
CAS News Profiles Catalina Rodriguez
CAS News has done a Faculty Spotlight on Catalina Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Spanish! You can read the profile here.
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 […]