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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 […]

Mauricio Gastón Institute – Signature Speaker Series

I’m writing you to invite you to our signature Speaker Series, this time a very special edition to present the work of three Andrés Torres Paper Series awardees. These young scholars have been selected nationwide and awarded with $5,000 to write a scholarly manuscript focused on the experience of Latinx in the U.S. It would […]

Alicia Borinsky Poetry Reading

Prof. Alicia Borinsky has an upcoming reading of her Poetry at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. Date:  Saturday, April 21 Time:  4:00 – 5:00 pm Click here for additional information.