Our distinguished, multinational faculty bring a global perspective to the study of language, with expertise in the literatures and film of Spain, France, Latin America, Francophone Africa, and more.<\/p>\n
Our department offers undergraduate instruction<\/a> in all four of the major Romance languages:\u00a0 French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Additionally, our faculty provide advanced training in French graduate studies<\/a> and Spanish graduate studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Christopher Maurer (Boston University), Andrew A. Anderson (University of Virginia), and Melissa Dinverno (Indiana University \u2013 Bloomington) are the 2025 recipients of the Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan... [ More ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Cazenave for winning the 2025 CAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education! From the citation read at the presentation of the award on April 30:\r\n\r\nBecause... [ More ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n Students in Maria Bobroff\u2019s LF 307 Food & Culture in France recently completed their final projects for the course: the making of a three-course meal. Three teams, each consisting of... [ More ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n Jennifer Cazenave has been awarded a 2025-2026 fellowship from the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut. She will be spending the 2025-26 academic year at the Institute where she... [ More ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n Celia Bianconi, Master Lecturer in Portuguese, has published a piece in the journal, Portuguese Language Journal. Her work appears in a special edition of the journal titled, Voices of Leadership:\u00a0... [ More ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n Last Friday, BUCH held its annual celebration of humanitities book publications at BU. Among the books celebrated were new publications from Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez-Medina, Nick Huckle, and Jim Iffland. Their works... [ More ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n Students and faculty from the BU Department of Romance Studies have collaborated on the first-ever exhibition on the archive of Europe's most popular poet, Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca (1898-1936).\r\n\r\nThe exhibition Lorca... [ More ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n Irit Kleiman, Associate Professor of Romance Studies, recently wrote a piece for The Conversation on the restoration and reopening of the Catheral of Notre Dame in Paris, five years after... [ More ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n Assistant Professor of Spanish Catalina Rodr\u00edguez has been awarded the Wetherill-Bloom career Development Professorship in the Humanities by Boston University. Congratulations to Prof. Rodr\u00edguez!\r\n\r\nCatalina Rodr\u00edguez is a scholar of Latin... [ More ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n Patrick Autr\u00e9aux, Writer in Residence at the BU Romance Studies Department, recently gave an interview on the occasion of the Mexican translation of his book Pussyboy (Canta Mares, Mexico). His... [ More ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our distinguished, multinational faculty bring a global perspective to the study of language, literature, and film. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15047,"featured_media":25830,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/landing.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20204"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26661,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20204\/revisions\/26661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}RS Faculty News Highlights<\/h3>\n
Maurer Receives American Archivists Award<\/a><\/h4>\nAugust 7, 2025<\/span>\n
Cazenave Wins Award for Graduate Education<\/a><\/h4>\nMay 1, 2025<\/span>\n
LF 307 Class Cooks a French Meal!<\/a><\/h4>\nApril 28, 2025<\/span>\n
Jennifer Cazenave Receives Fellowship<\/a><\/h4>\nApril 10, 2025<\/span>\n
Bianconi Publishes Article<\/a><\/h4>\nMarch 27, 2025<\/span>\n
BUCH Celebrates Recent Book Publications<\/a><\/h4>\nMarch 4, 2025<\/span>\n
BU RS Faculty, Students Collaborate on Lorca Exhibition<\/a><\/h4>\nJanuary 28, 2025<\/span>\n
Kleiman Pens Article on Reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral<\/a><\/h4>\nJanuary 2, 2025<\/span>\n
Catalina Rodr\u00edguez Awarded Professorship<\/a><\/h4>\nSeptember 24, 2024<\/span>\n
Autr\u00e9aux Gives Interview<\/a><\/h4>\nSeptember 18, 2024<\/span>\n