Annabelle Glas and Sarah Revilla Sanchez receive the Ximena Osegueda Prize 2021
Congratulations to our Ximena Osegueda Prize winners for best essay in a graduate seminar: Best graduate essay in French Studies: Annabelle Glas “Approche sociocritique autour de deux fictions utopiques contemporaines” Best graduate essay in Hispanic Studies: Sarah Revilla Sanchez “Audible Absence: Feminicide, Necrowriting and Affective Listening in Chicas muertas (2014) and Cometierra (2019)”
English-taught courses at the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (Winter Session 2022)
Did you know we offer many French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romance Studies courses that are taught in English, have no prerequisites, and are open to students from all backgrounds?
New Publication | Bilingual Legacies: Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona
Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar, Assistant Professor of Spanish, is publishing a new book titled Bilingual Legacies: Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona (July 2022, University of Toronto Press). Here she elaborates on the inspiration behind it. About the Book Bilingual Legacies is a book about fatherhood in the works of several Spanish authors born in […]
Recently Defended Theses
Date range: November 2021 – June 2022 MA in Hispanic Studies KIRCHENBAUER, Johann, Subverting spectacular binaries : an analysis of diasporic Venezuelan audiovisual productions (2022) PhD in French Studies BLANC, Magali, La construction de soi en l’absence de la figure parentale : Martine Delvaux, Annie Ernaux et Georges Perec (2022) PhD in Hispanic Studies ORTIZ, Rodolfo, […]
Rodolfo Ortiz: Barbarian Circuits and Belligerent Polemics in the Andean Magazines of the Early 20th Century
Dr. Rodolfo Ortiz, former PhD student of Hispanic Studies at UBC, shares about his doctoral research and its impact on the intellectual community, his graduate student experience at UBC, and his career goals. Research I examine literary magazines from Peru and Bolivia in the early 20th century, and their role in the intellectual and cultural […]
Advice for Academic Success from Student Award Recipients in the Graduating Class of 2022
Three award recipients from the Graduating Class of 2022 reflect on their undergraduate journey and offer advice for academic success to students in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies.
Recognizing Student Volunteers of 2021-2022
UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) would like to thank the 2021-2022 student volunteers for generously devoting hours to support the FHIS Learning Centre and Spanish for Community, and for their service as Student Representatives. In this article, students share how volunteering has enhanced their university experience. Learning Centre Volunteers FHIS Learning […]
Recommended Reads for Summer 2022
Back by popular demand, faculty members from UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) have compiled a list of recommended summer reads that were originally published in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. So pick your favourite park bench, soak up the sun and get lost in these books!
