Five FHIS Faculty Awarded the Hampton New Faculty Grant
Five faculty members from FHIS have been awarded the Hampton Fund New Faculty Grant.
Karen O’Regan: Reimagining Relationality through Hispanic Caribbean Diasporic Literature
Dr. Karen O’Regan, former PhD student of Hispanic Studies, explores how narratives of the Hispanic Caribbean diasporas invite readers to contemplate other ways of being in the world—ways that value difference and open relations over bounded identities.
Virtual Koerner’s: Persistence in the Times of Pandemic
The importance of discussion and idea-sharing during the Pandemic—even if it means moving from the physical to the virtual.
Recently Defended Theses
Recently defended theses from FHIS graduate students between January 2020 – November 2020.
Graduate Student Association 2020-2021
The FHIS Graduate Student Association aims to improve the overall experience of graduate students at the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies.
Spanish for Community: Virtual Community Engaged Learning
During these difficult times of the pandemic, Spanish for Community remains focused on its purpose: to expand students’ linguistic skills and cultural understanding by engaging in meaningful community projects for the local and global Spanish speaking community.
Research Spotlight: Bilingualism and Literature in Franco’s Spain
Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar studies the connections between gender and nationalism in modern Spanish and Catalan literature.
New publication by Jennifer Nagtegaal titled “From Accidental Autobiography to Comics Activism”
Congratulations to Jennifer Nagtegaal, PhD student in Hispanic Studies, for her recent publication titled “From ‘Accidental’ Autobiography to Comics Activism: Tracing the Development of an Andalusian-Chinese Feminism in the Work of Comics Artist Quan Zhou”, which is published in the Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies (2020). Access the publication: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Gender-and-Sexuality-in-Comic-Book-Studies/Aldama/p/book/9780367209414 […]
Patricio Robles awarded the 2020 Affiliated Fellowship
Congratulations to Patricio Robles, PhD student in Hispanic Studies, for receiving the 2020 Affiliated Fellowship for his research project titled “Environmental Crisis at the Edges of the World: Portrayals of Nature in the Pampas and Patagonia.”
Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
The Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies is currently accepting applications for the Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. If interested, please contact one of our faculty members in order to confirm that they may become your potential UBC supervisor and provide a letter of support for you. The internal deadline to submit your application to […]