{"id":18598,"date":"2019-05-17T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?p=18598"},"modified":"2019-05-20T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:03:09","slug":"romance-studies-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/2019\/05\/17\/romance-studies-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations 2019 Romance Studies Graduates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bu-slideshow-container 2019-commencement autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-18597\" data-slideshow-name=\"2019-commencement\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-18597\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-18597_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img 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src=\"\/rs\/files\/2019\/05\/Franca-After.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Franca Roibal\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-18597\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-4\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>4<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-5\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>5<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-6\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>6<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-7\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>7<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-8\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>8<\/span><\/a><\/li> 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aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>19<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The Romance Studies Department proudly honored our 2019 graduating class at our departmental commencement ceremony this morning. Congratulations to each and every one of you!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to our new graduates, Christopher Maurer, Chair <em>ad interim<\/em>, told them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Each of you, whether by studying the science of language&#8211;Linguistics&#8211; or by studying particular languages, sometimes more than one&#8211;and combining that study with other fields, have discovered [that], &#8216;Between word and object, between the thing and its name, falls a shadow&#8217;&#8211; a shadow inhabited by translation. Your years at Boston University may have taught you &#8211;mine have&#8211; that every act in life involves translation, &#8211;we translate the world and the world finds time to translate us before WE ourselves become shadows.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Degree Candidates<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Doctor of Philosophy in French Language and Literature<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Didem Alkan<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Dissertation Title:\u00a0 Tout cela pour dire: la qu\u00eate du transmissible dans l\u2019\u00e9criture\u00a0de l\u2019indicible et le cin\u00e9ma de l\u2019inmontrable.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Language and Literatures<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Amir Brandon Effat<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Dissertation Title:\u00a0 On the Edge: Liminal Spaces in the Novels of\u00a0Benito P\u00e9rez Gald\u00f3s<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Christopher Gerald Eldrett &#8211;<\/strong> Dissertation Title:\u00a0 Walt Whitman&#8217;s Prophetic Voice in Hispanic Lyric Poetry:\u00a0 Le\u00f3n Felipe, Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, and C\u00e9sar Vallejo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nadia Catherine Mann<\/strong> &#8211; Dissertation Title:\u00a0 Intermedia Strategies of Narrative Resistance:\u00a0 <em>Cartucho, La Noche de Tlatelolco<\/em>, and Representations of Ayotzinapa<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Franca Roibal<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Dissertation Title:\u00a0 Un saludo cordial: Intellectual Musical Theater and\u00a0Political Voice of the Uruguayan Murga<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Bachelor of Arts in French Studies<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Elizabeth Leighton Botelho<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"s2\">Magna Cum Laude<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Bachelor of Arts in Spanish<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Skovran Sutton Cunningham<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"s2\">Cum Laude<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Isavel McGough Tomasino<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Olivia McKellar <\/strong><span class=\"s2\"><strong>Summa<\/strong> &#8211; Cum Laude<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Ioana Alexandra Moldovan<\/strong> &#8211;<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Magna Cum Laude<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Zachary Reed Yousse Saltzman<\/strong> &#8211;<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Cum Laude<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Elena Corrine Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Rachel Josefine Zank <\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Bachelor of Arts in Spanish &amp; Linguistics<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Roxanne K. Segina<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"s2\">Magna Cum Laude<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Romance Studies Department proudly honored our 2019 graduating class at our departmental commencement ceremony this morning. Congratulations to each and every one of you! Speaking to our new graduates, Christopher Maurer, Chair ad interim, told them: &#8220;Each of you, whether by studying the science of language&#8211;Linguistics&#8211; or by studying particular languages, sometimes more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16403],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18598"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18614,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18598\/revisions\/18614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}