Yulia Bosworth to present at 50th Conference of the British Association of Canadian studies
Yulia Bosworth will present "'Nous voulons un pays': Discourse on identity, nationhood, and sovereignty in Parti qu茅b茅cois' Instagram posts" and participate in a book panel for Les mots de la nation. Au coeur du lexique de base de six communaut茅s imagin茅es : 脡tats-Unis, France, Angleterre, 脡cosse, Canada, Qu茅bec (by Jocelyn L茅tourneau, 2025) at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the British Association of Canadian studies (BACS) at the University of Edinburgh. (April 24-26).
Yulia Bosworth to present paper at the 13th Annual Colloquium on Quebec Studies
Yulia Bosworth will travel to Bishop Unviersity to present her paper entitled "National Identity, National Unity, and Nationhood in Quebec鈥檚 Political Parties鈥 Social Media Discourse" at the 13th Annual Colloquium on Quebec Studies in Qu茅bec, Canada. (March 28 & 29, 2025).
Robyn Cope presented at an international colloquim on French and Francophone Studies
Robyn Cope presented her paper entitled "Liberty or Death: Emmelie Proph猫te's Les Villages de Dieu" at the 20th & 21st Century Francophone Studies International Colloquium. (March 26-30, 2025)
Brendan Hennessey presented at the AAIS Annual Conference
Brendan Hennessey presented his paper entitled 鈥淔rom Pontine Reality to Colonial Fantasy: Malaria, Fascism, and the Epidemiological Boundaries of Cinecitt脿鈥 at the American Association of Italian Studies conference in Philadelphia, PA. (March 13-16, 2025).
Bryan Kirschen speaks in WCU Linguistics Speaker Series
Bryan Kirschen was invited to share his research in West Chester University's Linguistics Speaker Series. He will present on "Toward Virtual Communities of Practice: The Case of Judeo-Spanish in the Twenty-First Century." (March 27, 2025)
Yulia Bosworth featured in independent news outlet, The Conversation
Yulia Bosworth published in The Conversation. (March 10, 2025)
Marisol Marcin attends the 71st Annual Northeast Conference in New York City
Marisol Marcin will be attending the 71st Annual Northeast Conference in New York City. (February 27 鈥 March 1, 2025)
Robyn Cope delivers remarks at the Maroon Ecologies and Heritage Symposium
Robyn Cope presented "Emigr茅s, Evangelicals and Self-Proclaimed Robin Hoods: Emmelie Proph猫te's Maroon Nation" at the Maroon Ecologies and Heritage Symposium, here at 黑料不打烊. (February 24, 2025)
Sandra Casanova-Vizca铆no published two articles this month
Sandra Casanova-Vizca铆no recently published two articles. The first being "Recordando a los b谩rbaros: la historia g贸tica puertorrique帽a en la ficci贸n de Vanessa Vilches Norat",Hispanic Issues Online, v. 34, 2025 and the second"All exclusive: los cuentos delHotel Majestic de Alejandro 脕lvarez Nieves". CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, v. 36, n. 3, 2024. (February 2024)
Romance Languages Faculty members participate in Language Workshop at Duke University
Fernando Santos, Tom谩s Guerrero Diaz and Cristina Nava-Wilson traveled to Duke University this week for a professional development conference entitled, 鈥淚I Encuentro Pr谩ctico de Espa帽ol L2 en Carolina del Norte: Propuestas para un aprendizaje transformativo.鈥 (February 7 & 8, 2025)
Sandra Casanova-Vizca铆no collaborates with Stockholm University
Sandra Casanova-Vizca铆no traveled to Stockholm University in Sweden to serve on a dissertation committee for a doctoral defense of La cr铆tica de la violencia patriarcal en cinco cuentos deMariana Enriquez. She also delivered a talk at the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies entitled 鈥淟a distop铆a g贸tica: Jornada sobre el relato fant谩stico latinoamericano (siglos XIX-XXI).鈥 (February 6 & 7, 2025)
Yulia Bosworth was featured in the editorial section of Qu茅bec's Le Devoir
Read Yulia Bosworth's opinion piece, titled featured in one of Qu茅bec's most prominent news outlets, Le Devoir. Dr. Bosworth joins the conversation on current US and Canadian relations as President of the American Council for Qu茅bec Studies and US scholar of Qu茅bec. (January 27, 2025)
Faculty members receive French in Higher Education Grant from the Albertine Foundation
In AC Sieffert and Elizabeth Clarke received a French in Higher Education grant from the Albertine Foundation. Their proposal will allow for sustained partnership and community-engaged learning with instructors and students from Jennie F. Snapp Middle School. (January 2024)
Ana Ros's article to appear in Hispanic Issues
Ana Ros co-edited a dossier that was accepted for publication at Hispanic Issues. She co-authored the dossier鈥檚 introduction and wrote one of its eight articles, titled 鈥淯ruguay: trayectos de la memoria a cuarenta a帽os de la transici贸n democr谩tica鈥. (November 2024)
Sandra Casanova-Vizca铆no delivers lecture at Cornell University
Sandra Casanova-Vizca铆no traveled to Cornell University to deliver a lecture entitled 鈥淚ndebted Life, Gothic Mothers: A New Puerto Rican Genealogy in the Short Stories of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro.鈥 Further details can be found. (November 19, 2024)
Marisol Marcin particpates in ACTFL's Annual Convention and World Language Expo
Marisol Marcin traveled to Philadelphia, PA to participate in ACTFL's Annual Convention to participate in several higher education tables and panels on language education. (Novermber 21-24, 2024)
Robyn Cope's latest book is featured on BU's News Blog
Robyn Cope鈥檚 The Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s), is featured on BU鈥檚 list of 鈥15 Must-Read Books Written by 黑料不打烊 Faculty.鈥 To learn more about Robyn鈥檚 work and to read about the other books highlighted on this list, visit BU鈥檚 News Blog, here. (November 2024)
Cheri Robsinson presented at the SAMLA Conference in Jacksonville, Florida
Cheri Robinson presented her paper entitled "Disrupting Established Narratives of Violence鈥 at the Southern Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference in Jacksonville, Florida. (November 15-17, 2024)
Yulia Bosworth to present at MANECCS Biennial Conference on Canadian Studies
Yulia Bosworth will present her paper entitled, 鈥淗ands off my tongue and hands off my rights鈥: An analysis of protester and counter-protester discourse surrounding the adoption of Bill 96 at the Biennial Middle Atlantic & New England Council for Canadian Studies (MANECCS). (November 8-9, 2024).
Bryan Kirschen to present at NWAV 52 Conference
Bryan Kirschen will present his research on 鈥淢odels of Variation Applied to the Case of Judeo-Spanish in the Sephardic Landscape of the United States鈥 at the University of Miami and FIU鈥檚 New Waves of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 52) Conference. (November 7-9, 2024)
Marisol Marcin to present at NYSAFLT Conference 2024
Marisol Marcin will travel to Niagra Falls, NY to attend the 107th Annual NYSAFLT Conference as second Vice President of the organization. She will also present a workshop on communicative language teaching. (November 8-9, 2024)
Dora Polachek to present at international conference
Dora Polachek will present her paper entitled 鈥淎symmetric Bonds and the Dynamics of Deception in the Heptam茅ron,鈥 during a session on Women鈥檚 relationships in the Heptam茅ron at the Sixteenth Century Society conference in Toronto, Canada. (October 31- November 2, 2024)
Dana Stewart and visiting musician, Andrea Di Cesare featured on WBGH Channel 34
Dana Stewart and visiting Italian musician Andrea Di Cesare were featured in news report by WBGH Channel 34's Jim Ehmke. (October 25, 2024)
Dana Stewart featured in BingUNews
Read about Dana Stewart鈥檚 research, teaching, and community work as it relates to Dante and how such innovation inspired Andrea Di Cesare鈥檚 visit to Binghamton. Journey to paradise: Celebrated Italian violinist to perform Dante-themed composition. (October 15, 2024)
Robyn Cope to present at H.S.A. Conference
Robyn Cope will present her paper entitled "Urban Maroons: Emmelie Proph猫te's Les Villages de Dieu" at the Haitian Studies Association Conference in NYC. (October 10th-13th, 2024)
Brendan Hennessey delivers IASH Lecture
Brendan Hennessey gave an IASH lecture entitled "Malaria in Italian Fascist Cinema." His talk was also featured in Pipe Dream. View the article . (October 9, 2024)
Yulia Bosworth to present at international conference
Yulia will travel to a conference on Linguistic ideologies in the written press and other communication media: the example of Romance languages to present her paper 芦 Moli猫re amoch茅 禄 : Une analyse comparative du discours journalistique sur la qualit茅 du fran莽ais des politiciens anglophones dans la presse francophone et anglophone du Canada at the Universit茅 de Moncton. (October 9-12, 2024)
Yulia Boswoth to preside over international conference
Yulia Bosworth will travel to Qu茅bec City to attend and oversee the Biennial American Council for Qu茅bec Studies (ACQS) conference as president of the organization. (October 3rd-6th, 2024)
Dora Polachek gives keynote lecture at Old Dominion University
Dora Polachek traveled to Old Dominion University in Norfolk Virginia, to give a keynote lecture entitled "Gaming Strategies in the Heptameron" at the fifth biennial meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Seizi茅mistes, a conference on 16th-century French literature and culture. (September 21, 2024)
Robyn Cope's article appears in New West Indian Guide
Robyn Cope's of R茅gine Michelle Jean-Charles' Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction appeared in the New West Indian Guide. (September 19, 2024)
Bryan Kirschen to present at LASSO 2024
Bryan Kirschen will present at the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) conference at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His panel explores Language in the Religious Domain, and he will speak on Ladino throughout Sephardic communities in the US. (September 26-28, 2024)
Marisol Marcin to present at an international conference
Marisol Marcin will be a keynote speaker at the 5th International Conference on Professional Development at the University of Nari帽o, Colombia. She will speak on factors which impact language teaching and learning. (September 25-27, 2024)
Miller McLean to present at NCFS 2024
Miller McLean will present his paper entitled "The Production of Scientific Knowledge as Paternal Authority in 脡mile Zola鈥檚 Paris" at the Semicentennial Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium at Duke University. (September 19-21, 2024)
Anne-Caroline Sieffert to present at NCFS 2024
AC Sieffert will present her paper entitled 鈥淭he clothes of Bridgerton: 18th-19th century indiennes, French modistes and the global rise of the fashion industry in the West" at the Semicentennial Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, at Duke University. (September 19-21, 2024)
Bryan Kirschen featured in Bing U News
Read about Bryan Kirschen and Dina Danon鈥檚 (Judaic Studies and History) work though BU鈥檚 Ladino Collaboratory in Bing U News: Saving a language from extinction, Harpur faculty revive Ladino. (September 10, 2024)
Gerardo Pignatiello presented at an international conference
Gerardo Pignatiello presented his paper entitled 鈥淭ango y crimen: moral y racionalidad econ贸mica鈥 at the III Coloquio del Seminario Entreveramientos at Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. (September 11-13, 2024)
Ana Ros presented at LASA 2024
Ana Ros attended the Latin American Studies Association Congress where she presented her paper on Uruguay: 驴Desobediencia tard铆a o a pesar de todo?. Dr. Ros also participated in a workshop on the topic of Memoria Activista: Reflexiones sobre la fuerza de la memoria para fortalecer procesos de justicia por cr铆menes de lesa humanidad y desafiar negacionismos (Bogot谩, Colombia and Virtual). (June 12鈥15, 2024)
Ana Ros joins Uruguayan national system of researchers
Ana Ros has been accepted as a member of the (SNI) National Research System of Uruguay, recognizing her for her research and publication record within the Humanities. . (May 2024)
Yulia Bosworth featured in Bing U News
Sociolinguist Yulia Bosworth鈥檚 research explores the intersection of language and identity in Quebec. Learn more about her scholarship in Deux solitudes: Understanding the divide between French- and English-speaking Canada. (June 13, 2024)
Yulia Bosworth to present at 12th Qu茅bec Studies Colloquium
Yulia Bosworth will present "Navigating Identity and Belonging in Fran莽ois Legault鈥檚 Quebec: An Analysis of Discourse(s) in the Context of Bill 96" at the 12th Qu茅bec Studies Colloquium at Bishop's University in Qu茅bec. (March 2024)
Bryan Kirschen published a paper in Mizmor Le-David: Studies in Jewish Languages (CSIC)
Bryan Kirschen's paper "The Judeo-Spanish of Sa鈥榓di a-Levi: Mis memorias" appears in Katja 艩mid, Ora Schwarzwald, and Ofra Tirosh-Becker's edited volume in honor of Prof. David Bunis, Mizmor Le-David: Studies in Jewish Languages, published by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas. . (February 2024)
Yulia Bosworth named Scholar in Residence, to give Distinguished Qu茅bec Address
Yulia Bosworth was selected as a 鈥淪cholar-in-Residence鈥 SUNY Plattsburgh鈥檚 Center for Canadian Studies. In addition to this honor, Prof. Bosworth has been invited to give the 2024 Distinguished Qu茅bec Address: "French as 'the Common Language of the Qu茅bec Nation': Legislating Language and Identity in Contemporary Qu茅bec". The Distinguished speaker series is the 鈥渒eynote institute-sponsored campus event of the year,鈥 typically featuring Qu茅bec ministers and prominent political figures. (March 2024)
Gerardo Pignatiello to present at Ithaca College
Gerardo Pignatiello presented 鈥淭en cuidado, mariposa": violencia y racionalidad econ贸mica de la moral tanguera鈥 at Ithaca College. (March 2024)
Tom谩s Guerrero D铆az to present at international conference
Tom谩s Guerrero D铆az presented 鈥淓l yo femenino ante la incertidumbre del tardocapitalismo y la crisis clim谩tica en la poes铆a de Rosa Berbel鈥 at XXXV Congresos Internacionales de Literatura y Estudios Hisp谩nicos in Oaxaca, Mexico. (March 2024)
Bryan Kirschen published a paper in Mizmor Le-David: Studies in Jewish Languages (CSIC)
Bryan Kirschen's paper "The Judeo-Spanish of Sa鈥榓di a-Levi: Mis memorias" appears in Katja 艩mid, Ora Schwarzwald, and Ofra Tirosh-Becker's edited volume in honor of Prof. David Bunis, Mizmor Le-David: Studies in Jewish Languages, published by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas. . (February 2024)
Marisol Marcin nominated to NECTFL's LEAP
Marisol Marcin has been nominated and accepted to participate in LEAP, a leadership group created by NECTFL. She attended the 70th Annual Northeast Conference in New York City. (February 2024)
Bryan Kirschen published a paper in volume on Minority Languages
Bryan Kirschen鈥檚 paper 鈥淟adino: Minority Language and Culture of Sephardic Jews鈥 was published in Yasmine Beale-Rivaya鈥檚 edited volume Minority and Minoritized Languages and Cultures, through Texas State University Pressbooks. . (January 2024)
Bryan Kirschen, Featured in
Bryan Kirschen, was featured in The Academic Minute, a two-and-a-half minute daily module organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, which features researchers from colleges and universities around the world. (May 4, 2022)
Rachel Samiani, Collaboration links Italian class, UE schools
Students in instructor Rachel Samiani's Intermediate Italian class give a presentation at Union-Endicott High School. Read more. (March 23, 2022)
Professor Cope's article appears in the Journal of Haitian Studies
Professor Robyn Cope's article, " 'We Are Your Neighbors': Edwidge Danticat's New Narrative for Haiti" appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of the Journal of Haitian Studies. The article, like Professor Cope's new upper-level French course, "Haiti's New Narratives," grew out of her research on post-earthquake Haitian literature. (Spring 2017)