Ximena Osegueda Prize Winners for Best Graduate Essay 2025
Congratulations to our Ximena Osegueda Prize winners for best essay in a graduate seminar: Best graduate essay in Hispanic Studies: Keira Smith-Tague, MA Student of Hispanic Studies “Waste Narratives: Disposability, Wasting Relationships and Defiance in Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny’s Basura (2018)” Best graduate essay in French Studies: Emmy Issartial, PhD Student of French Studies “Tristan et […]
FHIS graduate students win Centre for European Studies Research Fellowships
Congratulations to our graduate students Nancy Ofori (MA Student of French Studies) and Sarah Revilla-Sanchez (PhD Student of Hispanic Studies) for winning Graduate Research Fellowships at UBC’s Centre for European Studies. Nancy Ofori’s Research Project: Nancy’s research explores the linguistic insecurity faced by Black African English language teaching assistants in France. This insecurity manifests when […]
“Listen, the World is Ending”: How a Romance Studies course sparked Nandita Parmar’s debut novel
Nandita Parmar (BA in Philosophy ’23) shares how her new novel, Listen, the World is Ending, was influenced by a Romance Studies course at the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS). What is your novel about? Listen, the World is Ending (2024) is all about feeling lost and alone in the world. It’s […]
Dr. Kim Beauchesne receives Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring
The Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) is proud to announce that Dr. Kim Beauchesne, Associate Professor of Spanish, has been honoured with the prestigious Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring. This award recognizes Dr. Beauchesne’s exceptional dedication to fostering the growth of graduate students. Citation: “Dr. Kim Beauchesne is an Associate Professor […]
New Book by Farid Laroussi: Francophone Literature After the Postcolonial Age
Dr. Farid Laroussi, Professor of French, will be publishing a new book in December 2024 titled Francophone Literature After the Postcolonial Age (Rowman & Littlefield). Description: Francophone Literature After the Postcolonial Age argues that Francophone literature extends beyond the postcolonial critical landmarks that helped define the field since the late 1980s. Today Francophone literature maps out […]
Recently Defended Theses
Date range: March 2024 – November 2024 MA in French Studies Hubert Odikamnoro Une étude des attitudes linguistiques des Igbos envers les langues majeures au Nigeria Abstract: Cette thèse porte sur les attitudes linguistiques envers les trois langues dominantes du Nigéria : l’igbo, le haoussa et le yoruba. Ces langues se distinguent non seulement par […]
Tamara Mitchell receives SSHRC Grant to explore extraction and aurality in Mexican literature
Congratulations to Dr. Tamara Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Spanish, for receiving a SSHRC Insight Grant for her research project titled Sounds of the Capitalocene: Extraction and Aurality in Mexican Literature. About the research project: What does it mean for a novel to be sonorous? How might we attune to sound or silence, rhythm or timbre, […]
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 […]