Articles, Papers, & Workshops
Prof. Franco Mormando authored "Nudus Nudum Christum Sequi: The Franciscans and Differing Interpretations of Male Nakedness in Fifteenth-Century Italy," in Fifteenth Century Studies, 33 (2008): 171-197 (article offers, inter alia, first textual confirmation of thesis of Leo Steinberg's The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art).
Prof. Ourida Mostefai authored “De Vincennes à Ménilmontant: promenade et projet autobiographique dans les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire.’ In The Nature of Rousseau’s “Reveries”: Physical, Human, Aesthetic. Ed. John C. O’Neal. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth-Century 2008: 03, 197-208.
Prof. Andrea Javel, Prof. Debbie Rusch, and Emmanuelle Vanborre (Ph.D. 2007), presented "Learning to Read while Reading to Learn" at the Northeast Conference of the Teaching of Foreign Languages in New York City, March 2008.
Prof. Kevin Newmark authored "Tongue-tied: What Albert Camus' Fiction Couldn't Teach Us about Ethics and Politics." In Albert Camus in the 21st Century. Eds. Christine Margerrison, Mark Orme, and Lissa Lincoln. Amsterdam: Rodopi: 2008, 107-120.
Prof. Catherine Wood Lange presented "Becoming Eva Perón: Eva Duarte's Performance in La cabalgata del circo (1946) and La pródiga (1946)" Cine-Lit VI Conference: An International Conference on Hispanic Film and Literature in Portland, Oregon, February 2007.
Prof. Matilda Bruckner authored “LeFresne’s Model for Twinning in the Lais of Marie de France.” Modern Language Notes 121 (2006): 946-06.
Prof. Matilda Bruckner authored “Clever Foxes, Fierce Lions, Diabolical Dragons: Animals Tell Tales in Medieval Arts and Letters." In Secular / Sacred, 11th – 16th Century: Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts. Ed. Nancy Netzer. Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2006. 19-42.
Prof. Matilda Bruckner authored “Arthur in the Narrative Lay.” In Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, IV The Arthur of the French. Ed. Glyn Burgess and Karen Pratt. Cardiff: The Vinaver Trust and the University of Wales, 2006. 186-214 (co-authored with Glyn Burgess; Bruckner's section is on Marie de France’s Lais, 187-98, 206-8).
Prof. Kevin Newmark authored "Deconstruction." In Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought. Ed. Lawrence Kritzman. New York: Columbia University, 2006. 29-35.
Prof. Matilda Bruckner authored “Marie de France.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford University, 2006.
Prof. Laurie Shepard authored "Marking Time: The Lives of the Young in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany." In Secular / Sacred, 11th – 16th Century: Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts. Ed. Nancy Netzer. Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2006. 74-80.
Prof. Matilda Bruckner authored “Authorial Relays: Continuing Chrétien’s Conte du Graal.” The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature. Ed. Virginie Greene. New York/Houndmills, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 13-28.
Prof. Elizabeth Rhodes authored "Join the Jesuits, See the World: Women and the Society of Jesus." In The Jesuits II. Cultures, Sciences and the Arts, 1540-1773. Ed. John W. O'Malley, et al. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2006. 33-47.
Prof. Matilda Bruckner authored “The Miracle of Compound Interest, or Accounting Games in the Jeu de Saint Nicolas.” “Contez me tout”: Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Herman Braet. Réunis par Catherine Bel, Pascale Dumont et Frank Willaert. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. 39-55.
Prof. Matilda Bruckner authored “Chrétien de Troyes.” In Medieval Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Margaret Schaus. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Prof. Cecilia Mattii authored “Il teatro dannunziano e le recensioni del «Marzocco». Due interpretazioni a confronto: Angelo Conti e Enrico Corradini (1896-1899)”, in L. Pertile, R. Syska-Lamparska, and A. Oldcorn, eds., La scena del mondo. Studi sul teatro per Franco Fido, Ravenna, Longo Editore, 2006, 233-249.
Prof. Sarah Beckjord presented “Bernal Díaz and the Territories of History.” Division on Colonial Literature, MLA Annual Convention, December 27-30, 2006.
Prof. Debbie Rusch gave a workshop titled "Grammar Presentations That Function." Lecture and Workshop Series of Foreign Language Teaching Strategies - Spanish, Bridgewater, MA, November 8, 2006.
Prof. Debbie Rusch gave a workshop titled "Do You Function in the French or Spanish Classroom?" Boston University, Boston, MA, November 7, 2006.
Prof. Laurie Shepard presented “Children in the Middle Ages.” Five College Medieval Studies Seminar; University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 26, 2006.
Prof. Elizabeth Rhodes spoke at the conference "From Spirit to Structure: The Constitutions and the Formation of Jesuit Culture" on the Catholic activist Luisa de Carvajal (1566-1614), who preached to infidels in London when priests were not allowed in England. Rome, Italy, October, 2006.
Prof. Catherine Wood Lange presented "An Icon is Born: Eva Perón in the Noticiarios Documentales Cinematográficos (NO-DO)." 3rd Romance Languages Film Symposium, at Wake Forest University, October 13, 2006.
Prof. Ourida Mostefai presented “De l’imaginaire libertin à la philosophie politique: la place du corps oriental dans la philosophie des Lumières.” International seminar on “Sensibility in the Literature of the XVIIIth Century in France and in England.” Associazione Sigismondo Malatesta, Rimini, Italy, September 20-21, 2006.
Prof. Sarah Beckjord presented “Science and Religion in the Early Spanish Historiography of America.” Society of Early Americanists, Old Town Alexandria, VA, March 31-April 2, 2005.
Prof. Laurie Shepard gave a talk titled "Gender Markers in Childhood Sacraments." Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (sponsor), Renaissance Society of America; San Francisco; March 23-25, 2006.
Prof. Sarah Beckjord was invited to give a talk titled “Race, Culture and Memory in the Cuban Literary Tradition.” Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Cuba Seminar, March 15, 1006.
Prof. Ourida Mostefai gave a talk titled “Rousseau's Parisian Walks: Urban Space in the Rêveries.” Annual Meeting of the Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Athens, Georgia, March 2-5, 2006.
Prof. Franco Mormando authored "Response to the Plague in Early Modern Italy: What the Primary Sources, Printed and Painted, Reveal." In Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800. Worcester Art Museum and University of Chicago, 2005. 1-44.
Prof. Elizabeth Rhodes authored "Redressing Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer." Hispanic Review 73.3 (2005): 309-28.
Prof. Sarah Beckjord gave a paper titled “Infidels, Heretics, and History according to Las Casas.” Program of the Division on Colonial Literature, MLA Annual Convention, December 27-30, 2005.
Prof. Dwanye E. Carpenter presented “A Converso Wannabe: Hernando el Marrano and Late-Fifteenth-Century Anti-Jewish Satire.” Forty-Seventh Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Milwaukee, 11 November, 2005.
Prof. Dwayne E. Carpenter gave a talk titled “'Funny, They Don’t Look Jewish’: Confusing Converts in Medieval Spain.” Inaugural lecture of Jewish Studies Program, Boston College. October 11, 2005. Available on “Front Row,” Boston College’s series of public lectures.
Prof. Debbie Rusch gave a talk titled "Keeping it in the L2." Workshop at Quincy North High School, Quincy, MA, October 3, 2005.
Prof. Sarah Beckjord presented “Informing ‘Indians’: Science and Religion in the Histories of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo.” Colonial Americas Study Association Symposium, Bogotá, Colombia, August 8-11, 2005.
Prof. Ourida Mostefai gave a talk titled “Vérité de la nature et nature de la vérité dans les Rêveries de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.” Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association. Hamilton College, June 9-12, 2005.
Prof. Laurie Shepard gave a talk titled "Laughing in the Face of Tragedy" American Association of Italian Studies; Chapel Hill; April 14-17, 2005.
Prof. Catherine Wood Lange gave a talk titled "A Tale of Two First Ladies: Eva Perón and Carmen Polo de Franco in the Noticiarios Documentales Cinematográficos (NO-DO)." Presented at the Cultural Studies Association at the University of Arizona, April 2005.
Prof. Rena Lamparska authored "Cenni sulla meraviglia nel pensiero degli Investiganti e di Gregorio Caloprese." In Maestro e Amico Miscelanea in onore di S. Widtak. M. Swiatkowska et al. editors. Kraków, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, 2004.
Prof. Kevin Newmark authored "On Parole: Blanchot, Saussure, Paulhan." In Yale French Studies (Special Issue: on Jean Paulhan), December, 2004, 87-106.
Prof. Laurie Shepard authored "Siena 1531: Genesis of a European Heroine." In Quaderni d'italianistica. 25.2 (2004): 3-19.
Prof. Sarah Beckjord authored “Totems and Taboos Revisited: Roberto Matta and the New World Tradition,” In Matta: Making the Invisible Visible. Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2004.
Prof. Elizabeth Rhodes was a contributor, Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Univ. of Oxford, British Academy and Oxford UP, 2004.
Prof. Ourida Mostefai authored “Inventer un langage nouveau: Rousseau et la polémique.” In Rousseau, Music & Language. Ed. Claude Dauphin. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth-Century, 2004: 88-92.
Prof. Norman Araujo authored "Alphonse de Lamartine." In Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850. Vol. 2. Ed. Christopher John Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. 634-636.
Prof. Norman Araujo authored "Prosper Mérimée." In Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850. Vol. 2. Ed. Christopher John Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. 732-734.
Prof. Norman Araujo authored "Charles Nodier." In Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850. Vol. 2. Ed. Christopher John Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. 812-814.
Prof. Sarah Beckjord gave a talk titled “Discursive Borderlines in the Early Chronicles of the Indies,” Program of the Division on Colonial Latin American Literatures. MLA Convention, December 2004.
Prof. Sarah Beckjord gave a talk titled “Fictions of Identity and Empire in Colonial 19th-century Cuba.” 2004 Atlantic World Conference, U North Carolina, Greensboro, September 17-18, 2004.
Prof. Laurie Shepard gave a talk titled "Dante's Commentators & the Ecclesiological Vision: Paradiso XI" Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo, May 2004.
Prof. Andrea Javel gave a talk titled “Littérature et film antillais à tous les niveaux”, Northeast Conference, New York City. Co-presented with Emmanuelle Vanborre, doctoral candidate at Boston College, 2004.
Prof. Elizabeth Rhodes gave a talk titled "Spain's Sonnet 'No me mueve, mi Dios,' Antidote to Mel Gibson." The Gifford Lecture. Tufts University, Boston, MA, April 2004.
Prof. Dwayne E. Carpenter gave a talk titled “Les origines historiques et légendaires du Cid: du Poema de mio Cid à Le Cid de Corneille.” French Library & Alliance Française, Boston, February, 2004.
Prof. Ourida Mostefai gave a talk titled “Polémique et combat philosophique chez Voltaire.” Annual Meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, January 3-5, 2004.
Prof. Stephen Bold authored "L'Usage de la raison: A Brief Literary Survey from Mersenne to Pascal." In Romance Quarterly, 50.3 (Summer 2003): 163-175.
Prof. Ourida Mostefai authored “Les infortunes de la célébrité: diffamation et défiguration dans Rousseau Juge de Jean-Jacques.” In Lectures de Rousseau Juge de Jean-Jacques, Dialogues. Ed. Isabelle Brouard-Arends. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2003: 129-139.
Prof. Stephen Bold authored "Solutions and Dissolutions of the Absolute in Seventeenth-Century French Thought and Politics: Studies on Pascal and Descartes." In Romance Quarterly, 50.2 (Spr. 2003).
