FHIS Research Seminar Schedule 2024-25
The Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) invites you to attend the FHIS Research Seminar—an opportunity to delve into the latest research surrounding the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Romance language-speaking world. The seminar will feature presentations from guest speakers, faculty members, and graduate students. Enjoy coffee, tea, and light snacks while […]
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 […]
Sarah Revilla Sanchez: Gender-based violence in Mexican horror and gothic fiction
Sarah Revilla Sanchez, PhD Student of Hispanic Studies, shares about her research on gender-based violence in Mexican horror and gothic fiction written by women (Part 1) and about her graduate student experience at UBC (Part 2). Part 1: Research What is your research topic? My dissertation examines how gender-based violence is conceptualized and critiqued in […]
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 […]
Comment favoriser la sécurité linguistique auprès des jeunes francophones en Colombie-Britannique? | Media Interview with Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard
Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard talks about how to develop linguistic security among young French speakers in British Columbia in an interview with Kristin Reinke, CEFAN, Université Laval. This is part of a video series on the topic of demystifying preconceived notions about North American francophonies, hosted by Kristin Reinke with the participation of the participation of […]
Rayanos y dominicanyorks: La dominicanidad del siglo XXI | Media Interview with Dr. Arturo Victoriano-Martinez
Dr. Arturo Victoriano-Martinez speaks about the launch of the second edition of his book Rayanos y dominicanyorks: La dominicanidad del siglo XXI in an interview with Pablo Mella, Executive Director of the Editorial Universitaria Bonó, on Acento TV.
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 […]