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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”

Joel Akinwumi: Collective Forgetting and Identity in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures

Joel Akinwumi, PhD Student of French, shares about his research on collective forgetting and identity, along with why he chose to pursue graduate studies at UBC. Research My research topic is entitled “Collective Forgetting and Identity in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures”. It is driven by two major questions: (i) to understand the nature and […]

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 […]

Recently Defended Theses

Date range: February 2021 – October 2021 MA in French Studies MA, Shiyuan, L’esthétique du raisonnement de Lancelot (2021) BERNIER-WONG, Nicolas, La création de la fin : l’évolution de l’absurde dans la littérature de l’apocalypse du XXIe siècle (2021)

Alumni Spotlight: Chiara Falangola, Lecturer of Italian

Dr. Chiara Falangola, Lecturer of Italian at UBC, shares how she landed tenure-track positions in both French and Italian Studies throughout her career, after completing a PhD in French Studies at UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies. Graduate Student Experience I chose to pursue my PhD in French Studies at UBC because I’d […]