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Faculty Research
Faculty research including books, articles, and presentations.

El cuento violento

El cuento violento Enhorabuena to Esteban Mayorga, Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Studies, upon the publication of his book of short stories, El cuento violento.

Service Programs
Acquiring a language and gaining sensitivity toward a culture help make service learning programs more beneficial to all. Find out more about service programs at BC.

French & Spanish Placement Exams
The French and Spanish Placement Exams are online 24/7. You will need Netscape/Internet Explorer 5 or better.

Language Requirement
Information for A & S and CSOM students about the language requirement.

Studying Abroad
Comprehensive information about study abroad opportunities.

Lectura Dantis
A public reading of the Divine Comedy. 2008-2009 schedule. View past readings on video.

Language House
Learn about the activities at Vouté Hall.

RLGA
The Romance Languages Graduate Student Association sponsors the annual International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies and publishes the Romance Review.

Faculty News

Prof. Livon-Grosman Prof. Ernesto Livon-Grosman received a Academic Technology Innovation Grant from Boston College. 2008
Prof. Mostefai Prof. Ourida Mostefai was awarded a Boston College Research Expense Grant, Winter-Spring 2008.
Prof. Rhodes Prof. Elisa Rhodes was awarded a Teaching, Advising, and Mentoring Grant from Boston College. 2008
Headset Prof. Kathy Lee and Prof. Christopher Wood together with Language Lab Director Cynthia Bravo received an Academic Technology Innovation Grant from Boston College. 2008

Prof. Dwayne Carpenter

 

Prof. Dwayne Carpenter was quoted in a Boston Globe article about Catholic and Jewish traditions relating to gambling. 2008
Cartoneros

Cartoneros, a film by Prof. Ernesto Livon-Grosman, won the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award for "Best Educational Film", the "Best Green Film" award at the 2008 Connecticut Film Festival, and special mention at the 2008 International Film and Human Rights Festival in Buenos Aires.

Prof. Mostefai Prof. Ourida Mostefai was appointed Visiting Scholar in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard University for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Piety and Plague Prof. Franco Mormando co-edited Piety and Plague: From Byzantium to the Baroque, Truman State University Press, 2007. The book contains an essay by Prof. Mormando. To search inside the book, click here.
Prof. Mormando

The BC Italian program is highlighted by one of Italy's most popular family magazines, featuring interviews with Prof. Franco Mormando and some of our students. 2007

Territories of History Prof. Sarah Beckjord authored Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Boundaries of Historical Writing in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America, University Park: Penn State University Press, 2007.
Prof. Mostefai Prof. Ourida Mostefai was appointed Advisory Editor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, a refereed journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press, for a 3-year term (2007-2010).
Francis Xavier and the Jesuit Missions in the Far East Prof. Franco Mormando co-edited Francis Xavier and the Jesuit Missions in the Far East: An Anniversary Volume of Early Printed Sources in the Jesuitana Collection of the John J. Burns Library, Boston College. Chestnut Hill: The Jesuit Institute, 2006.
Letteratura e scienza Prof. Rena Lamparska authored Letteratura e scienza. Gregorio Caloprese teorico e critico della letteratura. Introduzione di Fabrizio Lomonaco. Studi Vichiani, 43. Napoli, Alfredo Guida Editore, 2005.
Hope and Healing Prof. Franco Mormando co-edited Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800. Exhibition catalogue. Worcester Art Museum; distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Xul The XUL digital website is the digitized edition of the journal XUL: Old and New Sign. Content, direction and development by Prof. Ernesto Livon-Grosman.