Professor Odile Cazenave co-authors book
Professor Odile Cazenave co-authors book, Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment, with Patricia Célérie. Congolese writer Emmanuel Dongala comments on the book cover. Book is available at University of Virginia Press in February 2011.
Speaking Their Language: Grad Students Take Spanish Lessons to Roxbury
Romance Studies graduate students Megan Gibbons, Maria Luisa Martinez, and Peter Mahoney are featured in a recent article in BU Today for their volunteer work as Spanish teachers in Roxbury. The three teach an “unlikely group of language learners who congregate each Wednesday in the common room of the Camfield Garden Estates housing development… Many […]
The magnificent dream of Luis Chávez Rodríguez
Romance Studies graduate student Luis Chávez Rodríguez, who is completing a doctoral dissertation on depictions of the Amazon in Peruvian narrative, is featured in Bostonia for his community service in Perú: “Three years ago, Chavez spent $40,000, most of it borrowed from banks, to build a community center and library, called Casa del Colibrí, or […]
Tournées Film Festival Comes to BU
Congratulations to RS’s graduate students in French, who have received a Tournées Festival Grant for fall 2009 with the help of Professor Adela Pineda. The Tournées annual grant program is designed to support the screening of contemporary French cinema on American university and college campuses. The BU Tournées Festival will run from September 23rd to […]
Alicia Borinsky / Cola Franzen: A Bilingual Reading
Alicia Borinsky and her translator Cola Franzen will read from Borinsky’s Frivolous Women and Other Sinners / Frivolas y pecadoras on Monday, April 20 at 7 p.m. at the Yenching Library, Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge. Frivolous Women and Other Sinners / Frívolas y pecadoras by Alicia Borinsky, translated by Cola Franzen with the Author, and with illustrations […]
Carol Neidle and Sue Griffin Honored by CAS
Two faculty members in Romance Studies were honored recently with awards from the College of Arts and Sciences. Lecturer Sue Griffin, director of the Spanish language program, won the 2008 Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching, one of the CAS’s highest honors. The Neu Family Award is awarded by CAS each year to a faculty member […]
Romance Studies at the NeMLA Convention
Boston University is the sponsoring institution for this year’s Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, February 26-March 1 in Boston. NeMLA, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary, is a scholarly organization for professionals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other modern languages. A number of B.U. faculty and graduate students will participate in the Convention. […]
Spanish in the Community
Bringing their love for teaching Spanish to the community, PhD students in Spanish Megan Gibbons, María Luisa Martínez and Peter Mahoney have been voluntarily teaching elementary Spanish to members of the Grandparents Action Program, which is part of the Women’s Service Club of Boston. Starting modestly last spring with two small groups, these BU teaching […]
French program ranked #1 in country
Our section in French was ranked #1 in faculty productivity on a survey of U.S. graduate programs published in May 2008 in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Conducted by Academic Analytics, the survey for 2007 took into account, book and journal publications, awards, and research funding, and citations.
Book on Alicia Borinsky
A new book edited by Miriam Balboa Echeverría studies the poetry and fiction of Professor of Spanish Alicia Borinsky. A “Portfolio” of “Artefactos poéticos” – unpublished poems and drawings—is followed by studies by Cynthia Tompkins, Paola Ehrmantraut, Francisco Leal, Ester Gimbernat González, and Asunción Horno-Delgado. Julio Ortega provides a portrait (“Retrato de Alicia”) and Carol […]