Publications & Papers Read

Graduate Student Publications and Conference Participation

Carlos Abaunza

Publications

Spanish Associate Editor: Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2005, Vol. XV

Conferences

"Diarios de motocicleta: una invención búdica del Che," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2007

Helena Alfonzo

Publications

Contributions to a grammar supplement designed to accompany Punto y Aparte. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005

"Fermín Toro, un autor en tiempos difíciles," 50 Imprescindibles. Caracas: Fundación para la Cultura Urbana (2002): 123-128

"J.A. Pérez Bonalde: Poesías y traducciones, ese poeta nihilista." 50 Imprescindibles. Caracas: Fundación para la Cultura Urbana (2002): 229-234

Conferences

"Soñar en cubano: los cambios generacionales femeninos frente al exilio," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2007

“La reescritura y reinterpretación literaria de la Masacre de Cholula en El corazón de piedra verde, de Salvador de Madariaga.” International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2005

Conferences

"La adolescencia según Cortázar: un espacio doloroso entre mundos." International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2007

  

Publications

"La búsqueda", "Paisana", Caligrafias Revista Literaria, University of Kentucky, April 2000

Conferences

"The Development and Manifestation of Implicit Alliances in Cuentos de Eva Luna," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2002

 

Publications

“The Mule-driver’s Wife Meets the Misogynists: The Second Novella of Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron and the 'Querelle des femmes,'” Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2002, Vol. XII

Conferences

¨Transcending the Rhetorical Impasse: Madame de Lafayette´s La Princesse de Clèves and the Seventeenth-Century Querelle des Femmes," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2004

March 2003 "A Sixteenth-Century Text and a Twenty-First Century Crisis: Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron and the Current Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church," Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fall 2002 "Teaching Assistant Development: Collaborating for Success," POD, (Professional and Organizational Development), Network 27th Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia

Conferences

"Lady Mary Wroth: Strategie linguistiche nel linguaggio poetico," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2002

Performances

Words of Words, authored and directed by Anna G. Cafaro, performed at:

International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2005
Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA, 2006
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2006

 

Awards

NEMLA Caucus Paper Award, March, 2007

NEMLA Summer Fellowship: $1000 grant to travel to Italy and Spain, 2007

Conferences

"La Complessitá: nouva eroina dell´epistomologia contemporanea." International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2008

"Improvisation on Strehler's stage." Improvisation Continuums Conference, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, UK. April 12-14, 2007

"Il viaggio di Veronica di Dacia Maraini." 15th International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, March 30-31, 2007

"L'illusione dell'improvvisazione: l'Arlecchino, dalla piazza della Commedia alla regia di Strehler." 38th Annual NEMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, March 1-4, 2007

Italian Associate Editor: Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2005, Vol. XV

“La funzione del linguaggio comico e caricaturesco nelle novelle di Calandrino” AAIS Annual Conference, Chapel Hill, NC. 2005

"Formas de liberación femenina en La casa de los espíritus de Isabel Allende," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2004

“How to plan a Language Festival in a Language Department” 37th Annual Conference FLANC, Winston Salem, NC, 2003

Anne Cantu

Conferences

"La revancha de Moctezuma en Aguila real de Hugo Argüelles," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2001

Conferences

"Esperanza: The Modern Bi-cultural Woman from Mango Street," Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association (MAP/ACA) Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2006.

Publications

"Il lettore, l'autore e la problematica dell' autobiografia del Settecento," Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2003, Vol. XIII

 

Publications

Associate Editor, Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2004, Vol. XIV

Associate Editor, Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2003, Vol. XIII

Conferences

" 'Non ti celar da me, ch'io sono amica': Erminia e l'ambiguità della retorica femminile nella Gerusalemme Liberata," Casa Italian Zerilli-Marimò of New York University Graduate Conference entitled "Stato di eccezione: Cultural Responses to the Rhetoric of Fear", April 2005.

"Vox populi vox dei? La peste e il linguaggio nei Promessi sposi," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2004

Conferences

" 'Un train peut en cacher un autre': Nedjma, palimpseste katebien," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2002

   

Conferences

"'Me he dado cuenta de que miento, siempre he mentido': la estética del doble sentido en la canción silviana," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2002

Conferences

"Caupolicán y Héctor: visión del héroe enemigo en La Araucana y La Iliada," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2002

Conferences

"Goldoni riformatore o conservatore? Il valore 'educativo' e il progetto di riforma morale nella prima fase delle commedie goldoniane attraverso uno sguardo alla Famiglia dell'Antiquario e al Bugiardo," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2006 

Publications

Rev. of The Drama of Fallen France: Reading la Comédie sans Tickets, by Kenneth Krauss, Contemporary French Civilization 30.2 (2006): 153-57.

“From Prague to Paris: The Beginning of Theater Semiotics and Sartre’s Early Esthetic of Theater,” Sartre Studies International 11.1-2 (2005): 195-206; Sartre Today: A Centenary Celebration, ed. Adrian Van den Hoven and Andrew Leak (New York: Berghahn, 2005) 195-206.

“‘Enfin Sartre vint’: D’un théâtre de la fatalité à un théâtre de la liberté,” Chimères [Lawrence, KS] 26 (2002): 15-26.

Conferences

Organizer, “Contemporary Perspectives on Sartre’s Theater,” roundtable/panel discussion, fifteenth biennial meeting of the North American Sartre Society, Fordham University, October 2006.

“For a Sartrian Esthetic of Theater,” fourteenth biennial meeting of the North American Sartre Society, University of San Francisco, February 2005.

“From Prague to Paris: Theater Semiotics and Sartre’s Esthetic of Theater,” twelfth biennial meeting of the North American Sartre Society, Loyola University New Orleans, March 2002.

Publications

“Pedagogía festiva en Salamanca, h. 1497. Lucena, Repetición de amores.” Revista de Filología Hispánica 27, 2007. In press

“La encuadernación conjunta del incunable de Lucena, Repetición de amores e arte de ajedrez: apuntes sobre el ajedrez en la Edad Media.” Medievalia 37, 2005

Algunas noticias sobre Lucena, autor de Repetición de amores e arte de ajedrez (Salamanca, hacia 1497).” E-Humanitas, 2005

¡Eso es! Answer key writer for a text book on Advanced Spanish Grammar. Ed.
Houghton Mifflin. January 2001

Conferences

"From Song to Book: The Unhappy Endings of the Spanish Sentimental Romances." To be
presented at the 42nd Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo,MI, USA, May 2007

"From Song to Book: Ill-fated endings of Le Bel Inconnu." 41st Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, MI, USA, May 2006

"Lucena on Love and Chess: Converso Authorship during the Reign of Isabel.” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, MI, USA, May 2005

"'Ignoras forsitan ludos Cupidinis?:' Un texto de amores y ajedrez para el príncipe Juan." 33rd Annual Conference of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 2001

"La Historia troyana polimétrica: germen de la ficción sentimental castellana del siglo XV." 30th Annual Conference of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 1998

Publications

"La Commedia dell1arte come letteratura orale," La lotta con Proteo: metamorfosi del testo e testualitˆ della critica. Atti del 16.Congresso AISLLI, UCLA, 6-9 ottobre 1997. Eds. Ballerini, L., Bardin, G., Ciavolella, M. Fiesole: Cadmo (Italy), 2000. 1335-42.

Conferences

"The hero in Libro de los enxemplos por ABC," 36th, International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 3-6 2001
Funding source: Boston College / GSAS

Conferences

"La recreación cromática de la luz en la novela de María de Zayas: 'La inocencia castigada,'" International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2002

"El eufemismo de El pasajero de la noche de Manuela Reina: La hipocresáa orgásmica de la burguesía," Hispanic Graduate Conference. Brown University, 2002

"La cosmovisión medieval de Cristóbal Colón en su Viaje de abordo," XXII Congreso de Literatura Española y Latinoamericana. Montclair State University, NJ, 2000

Publications

"Lo que no cabe en las voces quen más decente en el silencio (La última morada polisémica de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz)," El Espéculo revista de estudios literarios de la Universidad Complutense #35, March 2007 Conferences

"Acrididae." International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2008

  

Conferences

"The Power of Dignity in Three Short Stories of Gabriel García Márquez," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2002

Conferences

"A la recherche de la voix féminine: Le féminisme des Lettres d’une Péruvienne." International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2006

Conferences

"Burladores y burlados: la falta de catarsis en el público arrabaliano," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2002

Conferences

"Visiones paralelas de Nueva York: José Martí y Feredico García Lorca," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2002

Publications

Las impresiones de Guadalupe Student Video CD-ROM –Script Writer-- Prentice Hall. Educational video that accompanies the textbook, Impresiones. Approximate date of publication: 06/05/2004.

Editor-in-Chief, Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2002, Vol. XII

Editor-in-Chief, Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2001, Vol. XI; Fall 2002, Vol. XII

Associate Editor, Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2000, Vol. X

Conferences

"Feminine Sexual Emancipation Vs. Patriarchal Appropriation of the Word: The Battling Drama –Deceptive or Real?— in El amor es un juego solitario." LVI Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2003.

"Hegemonic Deconstruction of the Other: Homogenizing and Stereotyping an Unknown Identity and an Unidentified Ideology." II Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica, Lima, Perú, March 2003.

"Unbalance of Juxtaposed Identities tinged with an Oedipal Complex Overtone within the "Wood of Mirrors": The Lacanian Triangle of Desire in Gringo Viejo.” IX Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003.

"Pyschosis and Homosexuality in Horacio Quiroga: ‘Homosocial’ Induction as a Result of a Time in History?." International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, April 2002.

"Jarchas, The Tacit subject of Desire: A Sudden Twist to Resistance," 7th Annual Graduate Romanic Association Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, March 2001.

"Cortázar and Antonioni: Transgression of an Illusive Reality," XXVII Congress in Hispanic Literatures, Indiana University, October 2001.

Publications

"Catarina de San Juan and the China Poblana: From Spiritual Humility to Civil Obedience." Confluencia 18, 1 (2002): 70-80

Ilaria Scola

Conferences

"Gaspara Stampa: il linguaggio amoroso femminile," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2002

"Clorinda:identita' e teatralita,'" International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2001

"Vita, memoria e immaginazione nella Vita di Vittorio Alfieri," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2000

Conferences

"Linguaggio rustico nel discorso diretto del Decameron," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2004  

Michael Strayer

Conferences

"El viaje heroico y la intertextualidad en Todo sobre mi madre." International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2008  

Tara Ann Sujko

Conferences

Espíritus mitológicos: las mujeres en La Araucana." International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2008

Emmanuelle Vanborre

Publications

French Associate Editor: Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2006, Vol XVI

"Possibilité et impossibilité de la littérature: Paulhan lu par Blanchot." Nouvelles Etudes Francophones 20.2 (2005)

"Identité et sens à travers 'Les Fenêtres' de Baudelaire," Romance Review, Boston College, Fall 2004, Vol. XIV

Editor-in-Chief, Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2003, Vol. XIII

French Associate Editor, Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2002, Vol. XII

Conferences

"Identité sociale et écriture: lecture blanchotienne de Traversée de la mangrove."Colloque "Le sens du social dans les littératures francophones," Uinversité Laval, 3-5 mai 2007.
Funding source: Boston College / GSAS

"'Je suis vivant. Non tu es mort.' La non-expérience de la mort dans L'instant de ma mort de Maurice Blanchot," Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006
Funding source: Boston College / GSAS

"Le net en chanson: 'La corrida' de Francis Cabrel", workshop at the French Library and Cultural Center, Alliance Française de Boston et Cambridge, 2005

"Dédoublements dans Aurélia de Gérard de Nerval," Vision & Madness: Eleventh Annual Penn Graduate Romanic Association Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
Funding source: Boston College / GSAS

"Past Imperfect: Slavery in West Indian Literature and Film", with Andrea Javel, at the Northeast Confernce on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, NY, 2004

"Identité et sens à travers 'Les Fenêtres' de Baudelaire," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2004

"Technology as a Tool for Linguistic and Cultural Development," Ten-hour workshop for Woburn Public Schools, Woburn, MA, 2004

"Click to learn: free, ready-made web activities," Chicago Public Schools Foreign Language Workshop, Chicago, IL, November 2003

"Click to learn: free, ready-made web activities," MaFLA (Massachusetts Foreign Language Association), Sturbridge, MA, October 2003

"Seuils et frontières dans Aurélia de Gérard de Nerval," Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2003
Funding source: Boston College / GSAS

"Click to learn: free, ready-made web activities," ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), Salt Lake City, UT, October 2002
Funding source: Boston College / GSAS

"La notion de temps dans La nausée de Jean-Paul Sartre," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2002

"Liberté de critiquer, critiquer pour la liberté dans Le mariage de Figaro de Beaumarchais," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2001

 

Conferences

"El rostro de agua" International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2008

"Arturo Cova: pensar en su fracaso y preguntarse por qué no fue lo que pudo haber sido," International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2005

Publications

Spanish Associate Editor: Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2006, Vol XVI

Editor-in-Chief, Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2005, Vol. XV

Editor-in-Chief, Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2004, Vol. XIV

"La prefiguracíon de Dios: conciencia de escritura en Bioy Casares," Romance Review, Boston College; Fall 2003, Vol. XIII

 

"Rousseau en promenade : Examen de soi et de la société," XV International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, Boston College, 2007

La historia oficial (2001)

Aztec, Mayan, and Incan Artifacts in the Museum of Fine Arts (2001-2002)

Visual Grammar - Spanish (2003)

El norte (2001)

Les Misérables (with Jean-Paul Belmondo) (2001)

Rue Cases Nègres (2001)
La peinture et le surréalisme en France (2002)
Visual Grammar - French (2003)

Marc Chagall (2002)