Tribute to Rita De Grandis
A tribute to Dr. Rita De Grandis, Professor Emerita of Spanish who passed away on April 28, 2024, written by her former PhD student, Dr. Fabricio Tocco. Me faltan las palabras. Those were some of the last words that Rita De Grandis told me before I last saw her. Because of the strange Spanish verb […]
Dr. Kim Beauchesne and team receive research grants to explore literary voices from the Amazon Rainforest
Congratulations to Dr. Kim Beauchesne (Principal Investigator), Patricio Robles, Emily Ng, and Willow Volkert for receiving the UBC Public Humanities Research Seed Grant, Arts Undergraduate Research Award (AURA), and SSHRC Explore Grant for research projects related to “Green Narratives: Literary Voices from the Amazon Rainforest.” About the research project: “Green Narratives: Literary Voices from the […]
Sarah Revilla Sanchez: Gender-based violence in Mexican horror and gothic fiction
Sarah Revilla Sanchez, PhD Student of Hispanic Studies, shares about her research on gender-based violence in Mexican horror and gothic fiction written by women (Part 1) and about her graduate student experience at UBC (Part 2). Part 1: Research What is your research topic? My dissertation examines how gender-based violence is conceptualized and critiqued in […]
FHIS courses that fulfill “Ways of Knowing” breadth requirements
View a list of course bundles that fulfill the “Ways of Knowing” breadth requirements in the following categories: Humanities and Creative Arts, Place and Power, and Language as Meaning. test
Alumni Spotlight: Gabriela Llanos, Government of Canada
Gabriela Llanos shares how her knowledge of Portuguese and other Romance languages helped her land multiple positions at the Government of Canada.
FHIS mourns the loss of Professor Emerita Rita De Grandis
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Dr. Rita De Grandis, Professor Emerita of Spanish, on April 28th, 2024. During her illustrious 22-year tenure at UBC before retiring in 2018, Rita made indelible contributions to the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies—and later the merger into what is now the Department […]
Anna Casas Aguilar receives NACS honourable mention
Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar, Associate Professor of Spanish, received the 2024 Honorable Mention for outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies by the North American Catalan Society (NACS) with regards to her book Bilingual Legacies: Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona (Toronto University Press, 2022). The award ceremony took place at the 19th Colloquium […]
Rayanos y dominicanyorks: La dominicanidad del siglo XXI | Media Interview with Dr. Arturo Victoriano-Martinez
Dr. Arturo Victoriano-Martinez speaks about the launch of the second edition of his book Rayanos y dominicanyorks: La dominicanidad del siglo XXI in an interview with Pablo Mella, Executive Director of the Editorial Universitaria Bonó, on Acento TV.