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 […]
French for the Future: National Essay Contest Winners 2023-24
Congratulations to the winners of the National Essay Contest, who have been offered bursaries to study French at the University of British Columbia. About the National Essay Contest Organized by French for the Future, the National Essay Contest gives students in grades 10, 11, and 12 a chance to win a scholarship to continue their […]
PhD CoLab pilot program awardees
A collaborative research project between PhD students and faculty members from UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) and other disciplines—titled “The Adaptive Text Encoding Initiative Network: Antiracist, Decolonial, and Inclusive Markup Interventions”—has been awarded funding from the Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) new PhD CoLab pilot program. The project involves […]
Irem Ayan receives SSHRC Grant to explore race and gender in Indigenous interpreting
Congratulations to Dr. Irem Ayan, Assistant Professor of French, for receiving a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for her research project titled “Voices of the First Nations: Reflecting on Race and Gender in Indigenous Interpreting”. About the research project: In a news article on July 24th, 2022, Henry Pitawanakwat, one of the twenty interpreters in Ottawa […]
Antje Ziethen receives SSHRC Grant to explore the reverse diaspora of “Brazilians” in West Africa
“Door of No Return” in Ouidah, Benin. Congratulations to Dr. Antje Ziethen, Assistant Professor of French, for receiving a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for her research project titled “Reverse Diaspora: The ‘Brazilians’ in West Africa”. About the research project: My project sheds light on a significant and yet mostly unknown chapter in transatlantic history through […]
Recently Defended Theses
Date range: November 2023 – February 2024 MA in Hispanic Studies Luis Enrique Moguel Aquino Naturaleza, indígenas e imperio en Noticias de Nutka (1793) de José Mariano Mociño This study, which offers an interpretation of Noticias de Nutka (1793) written by José Mariano Mociño, focuses on the representation of nature and natives of Nootka and […]
Marie-Eve Bouchard Receives 2023 Anthony Lodge JFLS Research Award
Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard, Assistant Professor of French Studies at UBC, was awarded the 2023 Anthony Lodge JFLS Research Award by the Journal of French Language Studies for best article on her study titled “J’va share mon etude sur les anglicismes avec vous autres: A sociolinguistic approach to the use of morphologically unintegrated English-origin verbs“. Abstract […]
Jennifer Nagtegaal publishes “Politically Animated: Non-fiction Animation from the Hispanic World” (Book)
Jennifer Nagtegaal, PhD Student of Hispanic Studies, recently published a book based on her MA thesis titled Politically Animated: Non-fiction Animation from the Hispanic World (2023) with the University of Toronto Press. In this article, Jennifer describes the book-writing process and shares advice to other graduate students who are interested in publishing. Part 1: About […]