Wine is Culture: A Cross-Cultural Approach | Event Highlight
Students explored the similarities and differences surrounding the production and culture of wine in various regions of the Romance language-speaking world.
Postcolonial Sociolinguistics: Special issue edited by Marie-Eve Bouchard explores attitudes, ideologies and power in language contact settings
Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard, Assistant Professor of French at UBC, edited a special issue for the Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics that addresses how language ideologies and attitudes are constructed in multilingual and language contact settings, and how they create and maintain unequal relations of power between groups. Through several empirical studies involving languages from Central America (Mexico, […]
Pooja Booluck Receives 2021 SSHRC Doctoral Award
Congratulations to Pooja Booluck, PhD Student of French Studies, for receiving the 2021 SSHRC Doctoral Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships support high-calibre students engaged in doctoral programs in the social sciences and humanities. This support allows scholars to fully focus on their doctoral studies, to seek […]
Nicholas Bartlett and Daniel Orizaga receive the Ximena Osegueda Prize 2020
Congratulations to our Ximena Osegueda Prize winners for best essay in a graduate seminar: Best graduate essay in French Studies: Nicholas Bartlett “Une Étude philologique d’un extrait de La Mort le roi Artu de Micheau Gonnot” Best graduate essay in Hispanic Studies: Daniel Orizaga “Sobre liberté. Notas sobre la carne emancipada”
Study Abroad Information Sessions for Summer 2022
Here is list of upcoming Information Sessions for summer 2022 study abroad opportunities in French, Spanish and Italian. Come and get your questions answered!
Joel Akinwumi: Collective Forgetting and Identity in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures
Joel Akinwumi, PhD Student of French, shares about his research on collective forgetting and identity, along with why he chose to pursue graduate studies at UBC. Research My research topic is entitled “Collective Forgetting and Identity in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures”. It is driven by two major questions: (i) to understand the nature and […]
Two French PhD Students Awarded 2021 Prix François-Paré
Pooja Booluck-Miller and Joel Akinwumi, two PhD students of French Studies from UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS), were recently awarded the Prix François-Paré for their papers at the 2021 International Conference of the Association des professeurs des littératures acadienne et québécoise de l’Atlantique (APLAQA), which was held at the University of […]
Recently Defended Theses
Date range: February 2021 – October 2021 MA in French Studies MA, Shiyuan, L’esthétique du raisonnement de Lancelot (2021) BERNIER-WONG, Nicolas, La création de la fin : l’évolution de l’absurde dans la littérature de l’apocalypse du XXIe siècle (2021)
4 Reasons to Fall in Love with French Studies—as told by undergraduates
Eight students share what made them fall in love with French Studies in the first place—and why they ultimately chose to major or minor in the subject.