Romance Languages & Literatures

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

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. 2007-2008 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. Dwayne Carpenter was quoted in a Boston Globe article about Catholic and Jewish traditions relating to gambling.
	Cartoneros, a film by Prof. Ernesto Livon-Grosman, won the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award for "Best Educational Film."
	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.
	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. Franco Mormando coedited 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.
	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.
	Prof. Franco Mormando coedited 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.
	Prof. Dwayne E. Carpenter spoke at the Feria del Libro in Badajoz, Spain, where his two-volume edition of the Alborayque, published in 2005 by the Editora Regional de Extremadura, was announced.
	Prof. Ernesto Livon-Grosman authored Geografías imaginarias: el relato de viaje y la construcción del espacio patagónico. Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2003; 2nd ed. 2004.
	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.
	Prof. Dwayne E. Carpenter authored "Alfonso de Valladolid" [A Study of His Hebrew and Spanish Manuscripts]. In Diccionario filológico de literatura medieval española. Eds. Carlos Alvar and José Manuel Lucía Megías. Madrid: Castalia, 2002. 140-52.
	Songs of the Women Troubadours. Ed. and tr. Prof. Matilda Bruckner and Prof. Laurie Shepard, with Sarah White. New York: Garland Publishers, Inc., 1995; rev. paperback ed. 2000.
	Prof. Kevin Newmark coedited Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers, by Paul de Man, with E. S. Burt and Andrzej Warminski. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993; paperback repr. 1996.