Alexis Ortiz Begins Job as Assistant Professor
Alexis Ortiz, a 2018 graduate of our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has been hired as an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Brescia University. Alexis says of his new job: I am thrilled to start teaching this fall at Brescia University. I look forward to working with faculty and staff to promote the […]
The Americas Film Festival of New York
I would like to invite you to the Fifth Edition of The Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY), which showcases feature films in fiction and documentary as well as shorts and animations that represent the rich diversity of cultures, languages and stories of the Americas. The Festival begins Thursday, June 7, 6:30pm, at the […]
Spanish-Brazilian Flamenco Night
Join us at the Dorchester art project gallery for a brilliant Spanish-Brazilian flamenco night!! Join Brazilian Guitarist and singer Tarciso Alves and Blanca Rosas Spanish-pop bossa nova singer. With ANTONIO “TIRITI” TRAN Spanish-flamenco guitarist and vocalist ANA MARÍA VILLA of Flamenco Boston. Tickets are only $14 for general admission. To buy tickets please go to […]
Instituto Cervantes at Harvard – Rashaping Hispanic Cultures Symposium
Date: May 11 – 12 Location: Observatorio. 2 Arrow St. 4th floor. Cambridge RSVP: info-observatory@fas.harvard.edu For the third consecutive year, the Cervantes Institute at Harvard University organizes the symposium “Reshaping Hispanic Cultures” and focuses on researchers who are beginning their professional career. During the symposium, unpublished papers will be presented with topics as diverse as literature, music, […]
Alan Smith Soto Poetry Reading
Our very own Alan Smith Soto, Professor of Spanish, will be doing a poetry reading later this month, along with his brother, Mark Smith-Soto. Date: May 24 Time: 7:30 pm Location: Cambridge Public Library
David Shames Wins GRAF
David Shames, a PhD student in our Hispanic Language and Literatures program, has won a GRS Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF). Shames will use his fellowship to do archival research exploring the relationship between cinema cultures and the new ways intellectuals began to visualize and imagine the city in post-revolutionary, 1920s Mexico. In particular, Shames […]
Adela Pineda Publishes Book on Steinbeck
Prof. Adela Pineda has published a new book, Steinbeck y México. The book explores US/Mexico relations through the lens of Steinbeck, film, and literature on both sides of the Rio Grande from the 1930s to the 1960s. Pineda said she found that Steinbeck’s intellectual anxieties from the Great Depression through the beginning of the Cold […]
Lionel Mathieu to Join Romance Studies
The Romance Studies Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Lionel Mathieu to our ranks. Dr. Mathieu will join us as a Lecturer in French beginning in the 2018 fall term. Prior to joining Boston University in 2018, Dr. Mathieu taught all levels of French as a Second Language at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, VA. […]
Philip Noonan Wins BUCH Award
Philip Noonan, a PhD student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, has won the Helen G. Allen Humanities Award from the BU Center for the Humanities. Philip’s award winning paper explores the contributions of avant-garde artist and comedian Ramón Gómez de la Serna to the genre of the lecture. In the paper, Philip analyzes […]
Impromptu de Versailles
Professor Row’s LF 453 course, “The French Enlightenment: Theaters of Deception” will be performing Molière’s Impromptu de Versailles on May 2, from 4:45-6 PM in PHO 206. It’s a delightful one-act play about metatheatricality, entirely acted and directed by the students in the class! Molière and his troupe of actors are scrambling to finish a newly […]