Call for Papers: FHIS Graduate Student Symposium 2025
The Department of French Hispanic and Italian Studies warmly invites graduate students to participate in our biannual Graduate Student Symposium. This dynamic forum brings together emerging scholars in our program, creating a space for intellectual exchange and scholarly collaboration across languages and cultures. Symposium Our interdisciplinary Symposium embraces research that spans the rich tapestry of […]
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 […]
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 […]
A start-up guide for teachers interested in fostering linguistic security in their classroom
Written by Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard, Assistant Professor of French Studies The Conseil jeunesse francophone de la Colombie-Britannique is a youth organization created to represent the interests of the French-speaking youth in British Columbia. In 2019, the CJFCB put together the Linguistic Security Committee – a committee by and for youth to address the topic of […]
Hannah Marincak: Research in Chile and Argentina – Expanding access to Indigenous poetry
Hannah Marincak, a third-year student double-majoring in Spanish and French Languages, Literatures and Cultures, shares about her experience participating in an Undergraduate Research Forum in Chile and Argentina during the Summer 2024 Session. The forum was part of the Palabras Madres translation project, led by Dr. Maria Carbonetti, which aims to increase public access to […]
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 […]
Nnaemeka Hubert Odikamnoro: Language attitudes of the Igbos towards the major languages in Nigeria
Nnaemeka Hubert Odikamnoro, former MA Student of French Studies, shares about his research on language attitudes towards major languages in Nigeria (Part 1) and about his graduate student experience at UBC (Part 2). Part 1: Research What drew you to sociolinguistics? I’m not entirely sure what I expected to gain when I set out to […]
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, […]
