We are Boston University's Department for the language, literature and culture of Romance Languages.
Boston, MA
Joined February 2018
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Karina Sembe, May '25 graduate, to teach at Northeastern University. More of the story at: bu.edu/rs/2025/08/25/sembe-t…
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Huge 👏 to our '24-25 @BU_Tweets Career Development Profs: @BU_CDS's Brian Cleary, @BU_ece's @TianYuWang2020, @BU_RomStudies's @CatalinaRod2, @BUreligion's @daigengna & @BUChemistry's @JDerosaChem, all of whom bring amazing promise to their fields! 🌠🎓
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We are back! Join the 2024 Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival at BU starting on September 25th @ 6pm for the screening of "The Beast" / "La Bête" starring Léa Seydoux and followed by trivia.🍬✨🍿
We are pleased to announce that José Dominicci-Buzó, a former student of the Romance Studies doctoral program at BU, has been selected to fill the position of Assistant Professor at Washington and Lee University, VA.! Read more at: bu.edu/rs/2024/04/24/alumnus…
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We're pleased to announce our 2024 Graduate Summer Fellows! These 8 grad students—representing 7 different @BU_Tweets departments—will spend 10 weeks at the Center writing research papers & participating in programs to advance interdisciplinary learning.
bu.edu/pardee/2024/04/29/par…
We are proud to announce that Master Lecturer in Spanish, María Datel, is a recipient of this year’s CAS IDEAL (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access Leadership) Award!
Congratulations to María! Read more about the CAS IDEAL Award here: bu.edu/cas/ideal-award/
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Join us on April 13 in the College of Arts & Sciences for our Grad Student Conference "REMEMBERED & FORGOTTEN"!
The deadline for submitting an abstract is April 1, 2024.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
1984, George Orwell
Graduate student Haleigh Burgon recently presented a paper at the “2024 Manuscript (HE)ART Symposium,” a conference initiated by organizers from Princeton and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence to honor Dr. Jesse Hurlbut, one of her past professors and mentors.
On Saturday, February 24, graduate student Kara Saar presented a paper at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium in Philadelphia!
Her presentation was titled “Faire la meuf: Girlhood and Liberation in Emmanuelle Nicot’s Dalva.”
Lionel Mathieu, Senior Lecturer in French, has published a review of an introductory book on the scientific study of writing in the history of language, in Linguist List!
You can read Mathieu's review by visiting the link on our website! bu.edu/rs/2024/02/12/mathieu…
On Friday, January 26, María Datel and Maria Bobroff presented at a virtual conference organized by the Center for Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California, “Grading Less – Learning More through Ungrading in World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.”
Read more about their presentations on our website: bu.edu/rs/2024/02/08/datel-b…
We've had some great news stories come out recently!
Last week, Dr. Robin Mitchell (SUNY Buffalo), historian of 19th-century France, spoke with Prof. Rachel Mesch’s LF 860 class about her research process!
bu.edu/rs/2024/02/08/dr-robi…
The Boletín de la Academica Peruana de la Lengua has published an essay by our very own PhD student, José Quispe!
The paper is titled, "Un no a la resignación o la intransigencia del deseo en Luis Cernuda," - read more about the paper here: bu.edu/rs/2024/02/07/quispe-…
Francisco Quinteiro Pires, a visiting professor at BU Romance Studies, recently presented a paper at MLA titled, “Sensing the ‘Discovery’: The First Contacts According to Pero Vaz de Caminha and Davi Kopenawa.”
Read his abstract on our website! bu.edu/rs/2024/01/23/quintei…
Exciting News: BU Romance Studies will host our 6th Annual Second-Language Learning and Disabilities Conference on March 1st and 2nd!
This event is free and open to the public! RSVP and see the full schedule by visiting the story on our website: bu.edu/rs/2024/02/07/2024-di…
