Mary Cook Receives Benjamin John Edinger Memorial Prize in French Literature
Congratulations to Mary Cook, MA student of French Studies, for receiving the John Edinger Memorial Prize in French Literature. This award is offered to an outstanding student in the MA program whose studies focus on European French literature, and is made on the recommendation of the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies in consultation […]
Sylvia Bascou-Vallarino Receives Killam Teaching Prize 2021/22
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Sylvia Bascou-Vallarino was awarded the Killam Teaching Prize for 2021/2022. The Killam Teaching Prize is awarded annually to faculty nominated by students, colleagues and alumni in recognition of excellence in teaching. Dr. Sylvia Bascou-Vallarino is a lecturer in French and has taught at UBC since 2001. During her […]
Dr. Gaoheng Zhang Receives Killam Faculty Research Fellowship and Jean Monnet Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr. Gaoheng Zhang, Associate Professor of Italian, for receiving a UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship from the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies, and a Jean Monnet Fellowship based at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, to assist with his book project tentatively titled “Scrambles […]
Pooja Booluck Receives 2021 SSHRC Doctoral Award
Congratulations to Pooja Booluck, PhD Student of French Studies, for receiving the 2021 SSHRC Doctoral Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships support high-calibre students engaged in doctoral programs in the social sciences and humanities. This support allows scholars to fully focus on their doctoral studies, to seek […]
Nicholas Bartlett and Daniel Orizaga receive the Ximena Osegueda Prize 2020
Congratulations to our Ximena Osegueda Prize winners for best essay in a graduate seminar: Best graduate essay in French Studies: Nicholas Bartlett “Une Étude philologique d’un extrait de La Mort le roi Artu de Micheau Gonnot” Best graduate essay in Hispanic Studies: Daniel Orizaga “Sobre liberté. Notas sobre la carne emancipada”
Two French PhD Students Awarded 2021 Prix François-Paré
Pooja Booluck-Miller and Joel Akinwumi, two PhD students of French Studies from UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS), were recently awarded the Prix François-Paré for their papers at the 2021 International Conference of the Association des professeurs des littératures acadienne et québécoise de l’Atlantique (APLAQA), which was held at the University of […]
Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grant to Study Racialized French Speakers of Vancouver
Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard was awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for a project titled: Uniting voices: An examination of racially minoritized French speakers of Vancouver. Description of the research project: Since the early 2000s, Canadian federal policies have encouraged Francophone immigration from around the world in order to support the vitality of the French language […]
New French translation by Patrick Moran of “La Mort le roi Artu”
Dr. Patrick Moran has published a new Modern French translation of the early 13th-century Old French romance La Mort le roi Artu, which is published by La Librairie Droz (Geneva, Switzerland) and based on the classic 1936 edition by Jean Frappier. La Mort le roi Artu offers one of the most famous medieval accounts of the death of […]
Two FHIS Graduate Students Receive Affiliated Fellowships
The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies offers approximately 50 Affiliated Fellowships each year to meritorious students for full-time study and/or research leading to a graduate degree. Awards are made on the basis of academic excellence, with applications open to current and prospective full-time UBC graduate students regardless of citizenship or visa status. Fellowship values […]
Graduate Student Award Recipients 2021
UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Graduate Student Awards. FHIS Graduate Student Leader Award recipients for outstanding leadership, significant contributions to the department, and the enhancement of the UBC graduate student experience: José Ricardo García Martínez Mirta Roncagalli Johann Pitter FHIS Graduate Teaching Assistant […]