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Graduate, Spotlight

Graduate Spotlight: Katherine Marchant

November 20, 2024
Achievement, Graduate, Research

Recently Defended Theses

November 1, 2024
Event Highlight, Graduate, Undergraduate

Study Abroad Opportunities Summer 2025

October 15, 2024
Achievement, Faculty, Research

Tamara Mitchell receives SSHRC Grant to explore extraction and aurality in Mexican literature

October 10, 2024
Faculty, Graduate, Research

Meet the Faculty of Arts PhD students decolonizing the future of digital humanities across disciplines

October 10, 2024
Undergraduate

New 2024/25 courses in the Faculty of Arts

September 16, 2024
Achievement, Faculty, Research

Over 40 Arts scholars awarded SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grants

September 16, 2024
Announcement, Event Highlight, Research

FHIS Research Seminar Schedule 2024-25

September 13, 2024
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Global Exchange Insider: An immersion in Barcelona’s literature, architecture, urbanism and current affairs

August 7, 2024
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight: Jeremy Wallace, Executive Director at Global Affairs Canada

August 7, 2024
Alumni

Alumni Donor Spotlight: How one family's immigration story sparked a tradition of giving back

July 11, 2024
Faculty

Ways of Knowing Spotlight: Get insights from faculty across Arts about migration and diaspora

July 11, 2024
Spotlight, Undergraduate

5 Aspects Every Translator Should Consider: Reflections from FREN 457

July 5, 2024
Faculty

Tribute to Rita De Grandis

July 4, 2024
Faculty, Spotlight

Sylvia Bascou-Vallarino: Reflecting on 23 Years at UBC

July 4, 2024
Achievement, Faculty, Graduate, Research

Dr. Kim Beauchesne and team receive research grants to explore literary voices from the Amazon Rainforest

July 4, 2024
Alumni, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Student Spotlight: Anaïs Sohni, Romance Studies

July 4, 2024
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Sarah Revilla Sanchez: Gender-based violence in Mexican horror and gothic fiction

June 26, 2024
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Student Spotlight: Anshul Kulkarni, Italian Studies

June 19, 2024
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Alumni Spotlight: Laura Marr, MA Student of French

June 19, 2024
Announcement, Undergraduate

FHIS courses that fulfill “Ways of Knowing” breadth requirements

June 19, 2024
Achievement, Faculty, In the Media

Jon Beasley-Murray receives BC Campus Award for Excellence in Open Education

May 27, 2024
Alumni, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight: Gabriela Llanos, Government of Canada

May 22, 2024
Graduate, In the Media, Research

Education through comics: Exploring the pedagogical value of comic art

May 13, 2024
Announcement, Faculty

FHIS mourns the loss of Professor Emerita Rita De Grandis

May 1, 2024
Achievement, Faculty, Publication, Research

Anna Casas Aguilar receives NACS honourable mention

April 23, 2024
Faculty, In the Media, Research

Comment favoriser la sécurité linguistique auprès des jeunes francophones en Colombie-Britannique? | Media Interview with Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard

April 4, 2024
Faculty, In the Media, Research

Rayanos y dominicanyorks: La dominicanidad del siglo XXI | Media Interview with Dr. Arturo Victoriano-Martinez

April 4, 2024
Announcement, Event Highlight, Graduate

UBC Giving Day: Invest in graduate students through the FHIS Department Fund

March 27, 2024
Achievement, Faculty

17 Arts scholars awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grants

March 14, 2024
Undergraduate

"How Do I Say Goodbye to the Thundershowers in July?" Slam poem by David Chen

March 14, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Undergraduate

French for the Future: National Essay Contest Winners 2023-24

March 13, 2024
Achievement, Faculty, Graduate, Research

PhD CoLab pilot program awardees

March 12, 2024
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Travelling Across the Romance World: FHIS Student Experiences

March 7, 2024
Announcement, Undergraduate

Learn Portuguese this summer at UBC

March 6, 2024
Announcement, Event Highlight

Graduate Studies Information Session: French and Hispanic Studies

February 29, 2024
Spotlight

Staff Spotlight: Arnaud Dufournel, Community Engagement Coordinator

February 27, 2024
Faculty, Spotlight

New Faculty Spotlight: Michela Valmori, Visiting Lecturer of Italian

February 27, 2024
Achievement, Faculty, Research

Irem Ayan receives SSHRC Grant to explore race and gender in Indigenous interpreting

February 27, 2024
Achievement, Faculty, Research

Antje Ziethen receives SSHRC Grant to explore the reverse diaspora of “Brazilians” in West Africa

February 27, 2024
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Mathilda Poulenay: Contemporary queer feminism in Francophone literature

February 27, 2024
Achievement, Graduate, Research

Recently Defended Theses

February 27, 2024
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Student leadership stories from UBC's Spanish program

February 15, 2024
Announcement, Graduate, Undergraduate

FHIS Instagram Contest 2024: Share Your Travel Photos

February 1, 2024
Achievement, Faculty

Marie-Eve Bouchard Receives 2023 Anthony Lodge JFLS Research Award

January 31, 2024
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight: Jorge Izquierdo Salvador, Dean of General Studies

January 25, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

Dr. Ramón ‘Arturo’ Victoriano unveils lost Dominican voices

November 22, 2023
Achievement, Graduate, Publication, Research, Spotlight

Jennifer Nagtegaal publishes "Politically Animated: Non-fiction Animation from the Hispanic World" (Book)

November 7, 2023
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Laurie Serafin: Studying Abroad in Quito, Ecuador

November 7, 2023
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Victoria Valeva: Studying Abroad in Lyon, France

November 7, 2023
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Loujain Bilal: Studying Abroad in Barcelona, Spain

November 7, 2023
Achievement, Graduate, Research

Recently Defended Theses

October 31, 2023
Faculty, Spotlight

New Faculty Spotlight: Marco Schaumloeffel, Isabella Huberman, Isabelle Delage-Béland

October 25, 2023
Spotlight

Staff Spotlight: Raynold Quan, Student Programs Assistant

October 25, 2023
Announcement, Graduate

Applications are now open for Graduate Programs in French or Hispanic Studies

October 25, 2023
Announcement, Faculty

Formative Peer Review of Teaching through CTLT

October 25, 2023
Announcement

Statement of Solidarity

October 25, 2023
Announcement, Undergraduate

Study Abroad Opportunities | Summer 2024

October 12, 2023
Faculty, Spotlight

Arts faculty on Latin American Studies and what unites Canada and Latin America

October 11, 2023
Achievement, Undergraduate

David Chen wins Italian literary competition "Premio Bolletino Itals"

October 11, 2023
Event Highlight

2 Talks on Italian-Canadian Connections Coming to UBC

September 19, 2023
Announcement, Undergraduate

Accepting Nominations: FHIS Undergraduate Student Representatives

September 5, 2023
Announcement, Undergraduate

Apply for Arts Co-op by September 19

September 5, 2023
Faculty, Spotlight

Farewell from Outgoing Department Head Joël Castonguay-Bélanger

June 26, 2023
Achievement, Graduate, Research

Recently Defended Theses

June 26, 2023
Spotlight

Staff Spotlight: Fonteyn Li, Administrative Assistant

June 16, 2023
Faculty

Elena Zampieri Reflects on 6 Years as UBC's Italian Lettore

June 16, 2023
Achievement, Faculty, Research

Anna Casas Aguilar receives SSHRC Grant to explore regionalisms, gender, and the evolution of tourism in Spain

June 16, 2023
Achievement, Faculty, Research

Patrick Moran receives SSHRC Grant to explore narrative literary genres in the Middle Ages

June 16, 2023
Event Highlight, Research

Event Recap | Indigenous Knowledge, Law & Sound with the Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster

June 16, 2023
Achievement, Graduate, Research

Jennifer Nagtegaal receives Dean of Arts Graduate Student Research Award to conduct research in Spain

June 16, 2023
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Graduating Student Spotlight: Soraya Dutto, French Minor

June 16, 2023
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Why Major in Romance Studies? | Student Spotlight with Maia Goldman

June 16, 2023
Achievement, Faculty

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion with Maria Escobar Trujillo, Inspirational Latin Award Winner

June 16, 2023
Spotlight, Undergraduate

UBC Students Recreate Paintings from the Romance World

June 16, 2023
In the Media

Haitian and Dominican Republic Relations Remain Strained Amid New Border Wall: Interview with Arturo Victoriano

April 24, 2023
In the Media

Better Understanding of Linguistic Insecurity: Interview with Marie-Eve Bouchard

April 20, 2023
Achievement, Graduate

Teaching Assistant Award Recipients 2022-23

April 13, 2023
In the Media

Explore Open Collections: French Revolution Collection

April 12, 2023
In the Media

Pop Music Tour of the Francophone World with Antje Ziethen

April 4, 2023
In the Media

French Language and Inclusive Writing: Interview with Caroline Lebrec

April 4, 2023
Announcement, Undergraduate

FHIS Instagram Contest 2023: Recreate Paintings from the Romance World

March 2, 2023
Spotlight

Francophone Indigenous Literature in Quebec: A Conversation with Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui

February 23, 2023
Faculty, Publication, Research, Spotlight

New Publication | (Pro)creación. Escritura y maternidad en la España contemporánea

February 23, 2023
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Patricio Robles: Nature-Culture in Ecological Narratives about the Pampas and Patagonia

February 16, 2023
Announcement

FHIS Launches New Instagram and YouTube Accounts

February 2, 2023
Announcement, Faculty, Research

Fostering Linguistic Security Among Young French Speakers in British Columbia

February 1, 2023
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Student Spotlight: Adam Vilio, Italian Minor

February 1, 2023
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Get to Know the Work Learn Students of FHIS (2022-23)

February 1, 2023
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Student Spotlight: Natasha Nock Uses TikTok to Document Her Italian-Learning Journey

February 1, 2023
Spotlight

Staff Spotlight: Sophie Rock, Student Programs Coordinator (Acting)

February 1, 2023
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, Research

Changing Course: Hybrid Opportunities for Students in French, Hispanic, and Italian Language Programs

February 1, 2023
Undergraduate

Spanish Conversation Partner Program with UBC & UDLA

January 18, 2023
Spotlight

What is linguistic insecurity and why we should dismantle it

January 12, 2023
Alumni, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight: Kelly O'Keefe, Language Assistant

December 16, 2022
Achievement, Graduate

Teaching Assistant Award Recipients 2021-2022

December 8, 2022
Announcement, Undergraduate

Study Abroad Opportunities | Summer 2023

December 5, 2022
Announcement, Faculty, Undergraduate

The University of British Columbia and Portugal’s Camões Institute Celebrate the Beginning of a New Partnership

November 30, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Faculty Spotlight: María Escobar Trujillo, Lecturer of Spanish

November 30, 2022
Alumni, Faculty, Spotlight

Faculty Spotlight: Magali Blanc, Lecturer of French

November 30, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Faculty Spotlight: Isabelle Delage-Béland, Lecturer of French

November 30, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Faculty Spotlight: Irem Ayan, Assistant Professor of French Traductology and Translation

November 30, 2022
Spotlight

Staff Spotlight: Bee Lee, Community Engagement Coordinator

November 30, 2022
Announcement, Graduate, Research, Undergraduate

Introducing the FHIS Sociolinguistics Lab

November 30, 2022
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, Research

Dr. Tamara Mitchell receives SSHRC Insight Development Grant to explore the sounds of violence in contemporary Latin American literature

November 30, 2022
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, Research

Dr. Elizabeth Lagresa-González receives SSHRC Insight Development Grant to re-imagine Early Modern Spanish novellas by women

November 30, 2022
Event Highlight, Research

The Sounds of Latin American Literature: Conference Recap

November 29, 2022
Achievement, Graduate, Research

Recently Defended Theses

November 29, 2022
Achievement, Event Highlight, Undergraduate

Arts Multilingual Week Poetry, Short Films, and Multimedia Projects by FHIS Students

November 29, 2022
Achievement, Faculty, Publication

New Publication by Patrick Moran: « Metalya entre les mondes »

November 29, 2022
Spotlight

Why We Should Take Pinocchio Seriously: An Interview with the Puppet Himself

November 29, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

The Significance of the Photographs in the FHIS Lounge

November 23, 2022
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Marcos Moscoso-Garay: Stereotypes of Amazonian Women During the Rubber Boom

November 9, 2022
Announcement, Undergraduate

Study Abroad in France, Ecuador, or Spain: Online Information Sessions

November 2, 2022
Undergraduate

Program Information Sessions: French, Spanish, Italian and Romance Studies

October 18, 2022
Achievement, Graduate

Annabelle Glas and Sarah Revilla Sanchez receive the Ximena Osegueda Prize 2021

October 14, 2022
Alumni

Alumni Spotlight: Heather Hastie, Communications Manager

July 28, 2022
Undergraduate

English-taught courses at the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (Winter Session 2022)

July 21, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Farewell Message from Stéphanie Palisse

June 20, 2022
Announcement

Message from the Department Head (Summer 2022)

June 16, 2022
Achievement, Faculty

Maria Carbonetti Receives Public Engagement Award 2022

June 16, 2022
Event Highlight, Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate

Centre de la Francophonie: Upcoming Initiatives

June 16, 2022
Announcement, Graduate, Research, Undergraduate

Hiring Student Research Assistants: Examining the Variety of French Spoken by Youth in Vancouver

June 16, 2022
Faculty, Publication, Research, Spotlight

New Publication | Bilingual Legacies: Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona

June 16, 2022
Graduate, Research

Recently Defended Theses

June 16, 2022
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Rodolfo Ortiz: Barbarian Circuits and Belligerent Polemics in the Andean Magazines of the Early 20th Century

June 16, 2022
Spotlight, Undergraduate

5 Reasons to Fall in Love with Portuguese Studies

June 16, 2022
Achievement, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Advice for Academic Success from Student Award Recipients in the Graduating Class of 2022

June 16, 2022
Achievement, Graduate, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Recognizing Student Volunteers of 2021-2022

June 16, 2022
Graduate, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Recommended Reads for Summer 2022

June 16, 2022
Announcement, Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Official Launch of « Atlas sonore des variétés de français au Canada » ("Speaking Atlas of French Varieties in Canada")

June 15, 2022
Undergraduate

Spanish for Community Student Testimonials: Working with Children at Ratón de Biblioteca.org in Medellín

June 14, 2022
Announcement, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Why Specialize in Romance Studies

June 7, 2022
Achievement, Faculty

Public Engagement Award Winners 2022

June 2, 2022
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight

Spotlight: Pooja Booluck-Miller, Assistant Professor (French)

May 31, 2022
Achievement, Graduate

Mary Cook Receives Benjamin John Edinger Memorial Prize in French Literature

May 11, 2022
Event Highlight, Faculty, Graduate, Research

Call for Papers: XVIIth Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society

May 9, 2022
Announcement, Undergraduate

Italian Program Launches Experiential and Community-Engaged Learning Blog

May 5, 2022
Announcement, Graduate, Undergraduate

Meet the 2022 Translation Team of Spanish for Community

May 5, 2022
Event Highlight

Afro-Latin Dance Class | Event Highlight

April 26, 2022
Graduate

(Un)titled: Graduate Student Poetry Collection

April 14, 2022
Achievement, Faculty

Sylvia Bascou-Vallarino Receives Killam Teaching Prize 2021/22

April 14, 2022
Announcement, Graduate, Undergraduate

Student Translators Needed for Spanish for Community

April 5, 2022
Announcement, Event Highlight

2022 Centre for Migration Studies International Art Competition

April 5, 2022
Event Highlight, Undergraduate

Students of Italian Conduct Video Interviews on Italian Design for Community Engaged Learning Project

April 1, 2022
Announcement, Undergraduate

UBC Introduces New Romance Studies Major, Minor and Honours

March 29, 2022
Achievement, Faculty, Research

Dr. Gaoheng Zhang Receives Killam Faculty Research Fellowship and Jean Monnet Fellowship

March 28, 2022
Graduate

FHIS Graduate Student Poetry Contest: Call for Submissions

March 17, 2022
Undergraduate

Video | FHIS Learning Centre: A Day in the Life of a Tutor

March 16, 2022
Event Highlight, Undergraduate

Recordings | Program Information Sessions: French, Spanish, Italian

March 16, 2022
Event Highlight, Undergraduate

Virtual Tour: A Contemporary Visual Celebration of Dante’s "Divina Commedia"

March 11, 2022
Event Highlight, Graduate, Undergraduate

Francophonie Month 2022

March 9, 2022
Event Highlight, Undergraduate

Program Information Sessions: Majoring or Minoring in French, Spanish, or Italian Studies (Online)

February 28, 2022
Event Highlight, Faculty, Graduate

George McWhirter's Translation Workshop and its Significance to FHIS

February 28, 2022
Event Highlight, Faculty, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Bridging Territories and People Through Translated Poetry of Mapuche Writers: A Student Project Spotlight

February 28, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Careers in Translation: The Beauty, Challenges and Opportunities

February 28, 2022
Event Highlight, Undergraduate

Explore Program Information Session Recording

February 10, 2022
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Student Spotlight: Claire Hein-Salvi, Spanish Major

February 9, 2022
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Pooja Booluck-Miller: Migration and Trauma

February 9, 2022
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight | Blood, Blacks and Books: Dominican Culture Under Balaguer

February 9, 2022
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight | Speaking Atlas of French Varieties in Canada

February 9, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Audiobooks for Teaching Literature and Language Acquisition

February 9, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

From Old to Modern French: Translating the Significant « La Mort le roi Artu »

February 9, 2022
Event Highlight, Spotlight, Undergraduate

"Racism is the Virus": Student-Produced Documentary Combats Asian Hate During COVID-19

February 9, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Sima Godfrey: Reflecting on 32 Years at UBC

February 9, 2022
Undergraduate

English-taught courses at the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (2021 Winter Term 2)

December 15, 2021
Event Highlight

Wine is Culture: A Cross-Cultural Approach | Event Highlight

December 15, 2021
Faculty, Publication

Postcolonial Sociolinguistics: Special issue edited by Marie-Eve Bouchard explores attitudes, ideologies and power in language contact settings

December 15, 2021
Faculty, In the Media, Research

A Sound Atlas of French Varieties in Canada: Radio Interview with Marie-Eve Bouchard

December 15, 2021
Achievement, Graduate

Pooja Booluck Receives 2021 SSHRC Doctoral Award

December 9, 2021
Achievement, Graduate

Nicholas Bartlett and Daniel Orizaga receive the Ximena Osegueda Prize 2020

December 8, 2021
Event Highlight, Undergraduate

Study Abroad Information Sessions for Summer 2022

November 18, 2021
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

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

October 26, 2021
Achievement, Graduate

Two French PhD Students Awarded 2021 Prix François-Paré

October 25, 2021
Graduate, Research

Recently Defended Theses

October 20, 2021
Spotlight, Undergraduate

4 Reasons to Fall in Love with French Studies—as told by undergraduates

October 19, 2021
Event Highlight, Undergraduate

Study Abroad Opportunities for Summer 2022

October 19, 2021
Spotlight

Staff Spotlight: Muirne de Búrca, Student Programs Assistant

October 18, 2021
Spotlight

Staff Spotlight: Raquel Costa, Administrative Assistant

October 18, 2021
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Promoting Diversity in Francophone Studies

October 18, 2021
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight: Chiara Falangola, Lecturer of Italian

October 18, 2021
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Mindfulness and Contemplative Pedagogy in Second Language Acquisition

October 15, 2021
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Procreative Poetics and the Origins of the Opera Libretto

October 14, 2021
Event Highlight, Faculty, Spotlight

Why Dante Alighieri Still Matters Today, 700 Years After His Death

October 13, 2021
Faculty, In the Media, Research

A Sound Map of Franco-Canadian Accents

October 8, 2021
Event Highlight

What Latin American Heritage Month Means for Canada

September 29, 2021
Announcement, Undergraduate

Win a UBC Hoodie by Sharing Your Undergraduate Student Story

September 15, 2021
Achievement, Faculty, Research

Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grant to Study Racialized French Speakers of Vancouver

August 6, 2021
Achievement, Faculty, Publication

New French translation by Patrick Moran of "La Mort le roi Artu"

August 4, 2021
Undergraduate

English-taught courses at the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (Winter 2021)

July 21, 2021
Event Highlight

Spanish for Community Annual Report (2020-2021)

July 19, 2021
Alumni

Alumni Spotlight: Emil Murad, Teacher (French & English)

July 15, 2021
Alumni

Alumni Spotlight: Gabriela Llanos, Program Officer

July 15, 2021
Alumni, Graduate

Alumni Spotlight: Javier Alvarez-Jaimes, Assistant Professor (Spanish)

July 15, 2021
Alumni

Alumni Spotlight: Avril Espinosa-Malpica, Senior Analyst

July 15, 2021
Alumni, Graduate

Alumni Spotlight: Christine Forster, Lecturer (Hispanic Studies)

July 15, 2021
Alumni, Graduate

Alumni Spotlight: Arash Farzaneh, College Instructor (French)

July 15, 2021
Alumni

Alumni Spotlight: Sarah Lewis, International Development

July 15, 2021
Alumni, Graduate

Alumni Spotlight: Jorge Izquierdo Salvador, University Instructor (Humanities)

July 15, 2021
Alumni

Alumni Spotlight: Diane Tijman, Faculty Advisor

July 15, 2021
Alumni

Alumni Spotlight: Erika Jarowicz, Teacher (French as a Second Language)

July 15, 2021
Alumni

Alumni Spotlight: Tonia Ramogida, Federal Government Employee

July 15, 2021
Alumni

Alumni Spotlight: Marcela Saldivia, Teacher (World Languages)

July 15, 2021
Alumni

Alumni Spotlight: Benjamin Ralston, Lawyer

July 15, 2021
Graduate, Research

Call for Papers: 2021 FHIS Graduate Student Conference

July 12, 2021
Achievement, Graduate

Two FHIS Graduate Students Receive Affiliated Fellowships

July 12, 2021
Achievement, Graduate

Graduate Student Award Recipients 2021

July 5, 2021
Announcement

Message from the Department Head (Summer 2021)

June 28, 2021
Achievement, Research

Dr. Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire Awarded $80,928 SSHRC Insight Grant

June 15, 2021
Achievement, Graduate

Jennifer Nagtegaal Elected as Student Representative to Canadian Association of Hispanists

June 14, 2021
Graduate

Mirta Roncagalli: Student Ambassador Q&A

June 10, 2021
Faculty, Research

Dr. Ramón Victoriano-Martínez Awarded CUNY DSI Research Fellowship

June 10, 2021
Graduate, Spotlight

Mirta Roncagalli: Graduate Student Ambassador

June 9, 2021
Event Highlight

Diversity and Decolonization in Italian Studies

June 9, 2021
Alumni, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight: Ashton Sanders, Learning Specialist

June 9, 2021
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Students Experience the Francophone Working World through Community-Based Experiential Learning (FREN 346)

June 9, 2021
Faculty, Spotlight

Podcasting as a Pedagogical Tool in the Time of Remote Learning

June 8, 2021
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Lifelong Learning: How learning a new language is beneficial at any stage of life

June 8, 2021
Announcement, Undergraduate

Brand New Courses at UBC's Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies

June 8, 2021
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Student Spotlight: Jessie Horner, Retired Lawyer (Italian Studies)

June 8, 2021
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Student Spotlight: Tania Astorino, Academic Program Manager at Green College (Italian Studies)

June 6, 2021
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Student Spotlight: Gabrielle Ehling, Undergraduate Student (Italian Studies)

June 5, 2021
Achievement, Event Highlight, Graduate, Undergraduate

Virtual Yearbook: Graduating Class of 2021

June 3, 2021
Announcement, Undergraduate

UBC's French Program Introduces New Major, Minors and Honours

May 26, 2021
Graduate

Romance Philology Students Translate and Encode Arthurian Literature

May 11, 2021
Achievement, Graduate

"My Thesis in 180 Seconds" Winners: Joel Akinwumi and Magali Blanc

May 7, 2021
Achievement, Graduate, In the Media

Interview with Joël Akinwumi: Winner of "My Thesis in 180 Seconds" Competition (Western Final)

May 7, 2021
Announcement

Retirement of Carole Schoenfeld

April 20, 2021
Graduate

Three PhD Students of French Will Be Participating in the Western Final of "My Thesis in 180 Seconds"

April 13, 2021
In the Media, Research

UBC Library users now able to access digital editions of essential French literature published by Classiques Garnier

March 30, 2021
Faculty, Research

Dr. Gaoheng Zhang Launches New Website on "Cultural Mobilities between Italy and China"

March 29, 2021
Event Highlight

Francophonie Month

March 9, 2021
Announcement, Undergraduate

French Language Course Code Changes

March 5, 2021
Undergraduate

$3,000 French as a Second Language Bursary for First Year Students: Apply now!

February 10, 2021
Graduate

"Ma thèse en 180 secondes": French Doctoral Studies Competition

February 10, 2021
Faculty, Spotlight

Remembering Larry Bongie

February 2, 2021
Spotlight

The Role of the Humanities During Times of Crisis

January 28, 2021
Event Highlight, Undergraduate

Virtual Global Seminars (Summer 2021)

January 22, 2021
Graduate, Research

Recently Defended Theses

January 19, 2021
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Learning Centre tutor offers simple tips for mastering new languages

January 19, 2021
Spotlight

Staff Spotlight: Min Ji Kang, Student Programs Coordinator

January 19, 2021
Announcement

Migration and Mobility Art Competition

January 19, 2021
Faculty

Announcing the loss of Professor Emeritus Dominique Baudouin

January 15, 2021
Event Highlight, Graduate

Call for papers: Colloque en études francophones de la côte pacifique (CEFCP)

January 14, 2021
Event Highlight, Faculty, Undergraduate

Spanish for Community Goes Virtual

January 12, 2021
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight: Fabricio Tocco, Assistant Professor (Spanish)

January 11, 2021
Announcement

FHIS mourns the loss of Professor Emeritus Larry Bongie

January 5, 2021
Announcement, Graduate

Job Posting: Graduate Research Assistant, French Sociolinguistics

January 4, 2021
In the Media

Sima Godfrey shares her COVID-19 doodle cartoons

January 4, 2021
Undergraduate

English-taught courses at the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies

December 17, 2020
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight: Javier Alvarez-Jaimes, Assistant Professor (Spanish)

November 20, 2020
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Digging 'mining literature' out of forgetfulness: a significant yet overlooked topic in Latin American literature

November 19, 2020
Achievement, Graduate

Caitlin Midgley and Mirta Roncagalli receive the Ximena Osegueda Prize 2019

November 18, 2020
Achievement, Faculty, Research

Five FHIS Faculty Awarded the Hampton New Faculty Grant

November 12, 2020
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Karen O'Regan: Reimagining Relationality through Hispanic Caribbean Diasporic Literature

November 12, 2020
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Digital Humanities & the Evolution of Philology in French Literature Studies

November 12, 2020
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Studying Abroad: Serena Huang reflects on her time in Lyon, France

November 11, 2020
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: War and Collective Forgetting

November 11, 2020
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Transatlantic Migration in African Literature

November 9, 2020
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Language, Identities, and Ideologies Among French-Speaking Immigrants in Canada

November 9, 2020
Undergraduate

Student Perspective: Adapting to the Online Learning Environment

November 9, 2020
Event Highlight, Faculty, Spotlight

Iris Escuer Riera Leads Wellbeing Initiatives During Unprecedented Times

November 9, 2020
Spotlight

Open Access Videos for Latin American Studies

November 9, 2020
Event Highlight, Spotlight

Virtual Koerner’s: Persistence in the Times of Pandemic

November 9, 2020
Graduate, Research

Recently Defended Theses

November 9, 2020
Graduate

Graduate Student Association 2020-2021

November 9, 2020
Announcement

Message from the Acting Department Head (Winter 2020)

November 9, 2020
Announcement

Spanish for Community: Virtual Community Engaged Learning

November 9, 2020
Undergraduate

Italian Between Word and Image: Digital Gallery

October 16, 2020
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Bilingualism and Literature in Franco's Spain

October 15, 2020
Announcement, Undergraduate

National Essay Contest: $2000 Scholarship for French Studies

September 24, 2020
Graduate, Publication

New publication by Jennifer Nagtegaal titled "From Accidental Autobiography to Comics Activism"

September 14, 2020
Faculty, Spotlight

From 'Ego-Centered' to 'Eco-Centered': Saving the Planet through Art, Literature, Bewilderment and Consciousness

September 2, 2020
Announcement, Event Highlight, Undergraduate

Italian Contest 2020: Between Word and Image

August 31, 2020
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Liza Bolen: Storytelling Through the 5 Senses

August 25, 2020
Achievement, Graduate

Patricio Robles awarded the 2020 Affiliated Fellowship

July 27, 2020
Announcement

Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

July 20, 2020
Event Highlight, Graduate, Research

FHIS Graduate Student Conference

July 13, 2020

FSL Bursary Application Form

July 9, 2020
Faculty

Welcome to newly hired FHIS faculty members

July 6, 2020
Faculty

Farewell to Retiring FHIS Faculty Members

June 29, 2020
Announcement

FHIS Statement of Support Against Racism

June 16, 2020
Announcement

Fall 2020 Courses in FHIS

June 9, 2020
Announcement

Message from the Department Head (Summer 2020)

June 3, 2020
Publication

Le monde en ruines : Espaces brisés de la littérature contemporaine

June 3, 2020
Spotlight, Undergraduate

6 Tips to Students for Adapting to the "New Normal"

June 2, 2020
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Students contribute to public scholarship through podcasting while "physical distancing"

June 2, 2020
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Camilo Monje: Breaking the Boundaries of Literary Criticism in Colombian Literature

June 2, 2020
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Liza Bolen: Storytelling Through the 5 Senses

June 2, 2020
Publication, Spotlight

UBC experts on what to read when you're stuck at home -- French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan edition

June 2, 2020
Faculty, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Reimagining Higher Education: Reflections on the transition to online course delivery

June 2, 2020
Faculty, Spotlight

Professor André Lamontagne: Reflecting on 31 Years at UBC

June 2, 2020

Italian Literature: Recommended Readings by UBC Faculty

May 28, 2020

New bursaries available for post-secondary studies in French as a second language

April 30, 2020
Achievement, Faculty

André Lamontagne awarded honorary title of "Knight" by France's Ministry of Education

March 10, 2020

Digital Humanities Conference: Call for Proposals

February 18, 2020
Publication

Publication of "Exchanges and Parallels Between Italy and East Asia" edited by Gaoheng Zhang and Mario Mignone

February 5, 2020
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Why Major or Minor in Latin American Studies?

January 23, 2020
Undergraduate

Why Minor in Italian?

January 23, 2020
Undergraduate

Why Major or Minor in Spanish?

January 23, 2020
Undergraduate

Why Major or Minor in French?

January 23, 2020

Recently Defended Theses

January 23, 2020
Undergraduate

Interested in Becoming a French Teacher? Consider the BEd Program

January 17, 2020
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Magali Blanc: 'Construction of the Self' in Contemporary French Literature

January 16, 2020
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Jennifer Nagtegaal: Drawing, Comics & Animation in Hispanic Visual Culture

January 15, 2020

[Transcript] Fascism: Why Understanding the Past is Critical for the Present

January 14, 2020
Achievement, Faculty

Dr. Ramón Victoriano named in the "Gallery of Personalities of the Dominican-Canadian Relations"

January 13, 2020
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Joseph Bouchard: Community and Growth through the FHIS Learning Centre

January 2, 2020
Achievement, Faculty, Publication

Patrick Moran’s book "The Canons of Fantasy: Lands of High Adventure" is now available

December 4, 2019

Ximena Osegueda Prize 2018

November 20, 2019
Alumni, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Alumni Spotlight: Lawrence Book McKnight, Program Manager

October 25, 2019

Study Abroad | Summer 2020

October 24, 2019
Event Highlight, Faculty, Spotlight

Promoting the French Language: Centre de la Francophonie de UBC

October 23, 2019
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Thao Atkinson: Studying Abroad in Venice, Italy

October 23, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Modes of Resistance in Dominican Literature

October 22, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Gender, Genre & Economic Transactions in Literature

October 22, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: The Evolution of a "Poetics of Ruins"

October 22, 2019
Faculty, Spotlight

Latin American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Studying the Region

October 22, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Post-Nationalism in Mexican and Central American Narrative Fiction

October 21, 2019
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Bowen Wright: Studying Abroad in Quito, Ecuador

October 21, 2019

FHIS Reading Group: 2019-20 Schedule

October 18, 2019
Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Anne-Claire Marpeau: The Role of Social Codes and Pedagogical Expectations in Interpreting Literature

October 17, 2019

Graduate Conference Program has been released

October 17, 2019
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight: Nathalie Gettliffe, Associate Professor (Linguistics)

October 16, 2019

André Lamontagne honoured with Sovereign’s Medal

October 10, 2019
In the Media

Catalan artwork lost three decades ago are located by Dr. Anna Casas-Aguilar

October 8, 2019
Event Highlight, Faculty, Spotlight

Elena Zampieri: Promoting Italian Language and Culture at UBC

September 30, 2019
Faculty, Spotlight

Fascism: Why Understanding the Past is Critical for the Present

September 29, 2019

FHIS' statement on the Global Climate Strike

September 24, 2019

FHIS welcomes new colleagues

August 30, 2019

Xana Menéndez Prendes awarded the 2019 Affiliated Fellowship

August 28, 2019
Alumni, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Alumni Spotlight: Astghik Hairapetian, Law School Student

July 16, 2019
Alumni, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Alumni Spotlight: Madeleine Natale, Career Advisor

July 15, 2019

Ross Swanson: Graduate Q&A

July 14, 2019

FHIS offices will be relocated starting July 13, 2019

June 25, 2019

Go Global students connect with FHIS PhD graduate in Ecuador

June 24, 2019

"Best Essay" awarded to two FHIS students by the Canadian Association of Hispanists

June 17, 2019
Alumni, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Alumni Spotlight: Darlene Munro, Teacher

June 5, 2019

Summary: Research Activity 2018-2019

June 4, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Mobilities & Cultures -- Italy, China, North America

June 4, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Bridging Transatlantic & Transpacific Studies

June 4, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Arts & Ideology in the 21st-Century Arab World

June 4, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Refashioning Women Writers of the French Renaissance

June 4, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: A Cognitive & Philological Investigation of Genre in Medieval French Literature

June 4, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Utopian Memory in African & Caribbean Francophone Literatures

June 4, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: African Diaspora Literature, Culture & Technology in Brazil

June 4, 2019
Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Research Spotlight: Crimea - The Invisible War

June 4, 2019
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight: Jesse Barker, Assistant Professor (Spanish)

June 4, 2019

"The Afrikaner" by Arianna Dagnino: Colonialism, Reconciliation & Transcultural Literature

June 4, 2019
Achievement, Event Highlight, Faculty, Spotlight, Undergraduate

Maria Carbonetti shares about Community Engaged Learning

June 4, 2019

Professor Ralph Sarkonak: Reflecting on 36 Years at UBC

June 4, 2019

FHIS Undergraduate Forum 2019 Winners

April 11, 2019

Kathryn Houston receives the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program Award

April 9, 2019

Dr. María Carbonetti receives the 2019 Killam Teaching Prize

April 8, 2019

UBC Study Abroad - Ecuador 2019

April 8, 2019

National Essay Contest winners receive scholarships to UBC’s French program

March 14, 2019

Sessional Lecturer Positions: Summer Session 2019

March 8, 2019

Call for Posters: Assessment in Language Contexts, Congress 2019

March 6, 2019

Lecturer of French

March 1, 2019

New issue of "Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei" edited by Daniela Boccassini

January 30, 2019

FHIS Newsletter Subscription

January 18, 2019
Spotlight, Undergraduate

Beyond the classroom: peer-guided support for students learning French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese

December 20, 2018
Faculty, Spotlight

Why you should consider learning Portuguese

December 20, 2018

Media, migration and Italy's struggle with globalization

December 20, 2018

María Adelaida Escobar-Trujillo’s “Tiempo del sur” addresses illegal immigration, homosexuality, death and love

December 19, 2018
Achievement, Faculty, Spotlight

Killam Teaching Prize recipient Brianne Orr-Álvarez shares best practices and memorable moments

December 18, 2018

New partnership brings original documents from the French Revolution to UBC

November 13, 2018

Be the next English teaching assistant in France!

November 7, 2018

Guacamole for Justice: Free Cooking Class

October 30, 2018

Assistant Professor Patrick Moran Receives Hampton Research Grant

October 26, 2018

The Ximena Osegueda Prize 2017

October 23, 2018

Sessional Lecturer Positions: Winter Session 2018

October 22, 2018

Assistant Professor of French (20th/21st-Century French Literature and Culture)

October 19, 2018

New Publication: Special Issue of the Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (July 2018) co-edited by Dr. Kim Beauchesne

October 17, 2018

Week of the Italian Language in the World: October 15-21, 2018

October 11, 2018

Study Abroad | Summer 2019

October 9, 2018

Assistant Professor of Spanish (Caribbean Literatures and Cultures)

September 14, 2018

FHIS Research Seminar, Winter 2018, Term 1: Schedule

September 7, 2018

Congratulations to our Graduate Student Research Grant Award Recipients

August 2, 2018

Assistant Professor of Spanish (20th/21st-Century Mexican Literature and Cultures)

August 2, 2018

Instructor of Italian (tenure-track)

August 2, 2018

Instructor of Spanish (tenure-track)

August 2, 2018

Communications Coordinator

July 23, 2018

SPAN: Additional Sessional Lecturer Position - Winter Session 2018

May 29, 2018

Welcome

May 25, 2018

FREN 280

May 25, 2018

PORT: Sessional Lecturer Positions - Winter Session 2018

May 18, 2018

SPAN: Sessional Lecturer Positions - Winter Session 2018

May 18, 2018

LAST: Sessional Lecturer Position - Winter Session 2018

May 18, 2018

FREN: Sessional Lecturer Positions - Winter Session 2018

May 18, 2018

ITAL/ITST: Sessional Lecturer Positions - Winter Session 2018

May 18, 2018

Call for Papers: "Italy and East Asia: Exchanges and Parallels" (Oct 11-13, 2018)

April 18, 2018

Summer TA Position in Spanish

April 18, 2018

FREN 111 Summer 2018 Survey

April 18, 2018

Graduate Student Symposium

April 6, 2018

Go Global Information Session – Exchange to Europe

March 28, 2018

FHIS End-of-Term Luncheon

March 28, 2018

Additional Sessional Lecturer Sections: Summer Session 2018

March 23, 2018

Lecturer Position in Spanish

March 12, 2018

Lecturer Position in French

March 12, 2018

Celebrate the Month of the Francophonie at UBC

March 11, 2018

Sessional Lecturer Positions: Summer Session 2018

March 9, 2018

Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar, appointed as Peter Wall Institute Scholar for 2018-2019

March 2, 2018

Winner of the Arts Co-op Student of the Year Award for 2017 - Avril Espinosa-Malpica

February 25, 2018

FHIS Learning Centre Opening and Schedule (Term 2)

January 12, 2018

The Francophone Movie Club is back!

January 11, 2018

Make Community Connections! Reading Week 2018 Projects for French, Hispanic, Italian Studies students

January 4, 2018

Tec de Monterrey Summer Programs - Information Session

January 3, 2018

Study in Québec City Program: info sessions (Nov. 20 & 28)

November 7, 2017

Italian 409

November 5, 2017

Fren 371

November 4, 2017

Images of Movement: Migrants and Tourists

November 1, 2017

Reading Group | Literary Theory: On Violence (Fall-Winter schedule, 2017-2018)

October 31, 2017

Study in Italy program: info session (Nov. 6, 4pm)

October 31, 2017

Hiring a PhD student for 2018 Workshops on "Mobilities and Immobilities"

October 30, 2017

New book: "Après Rimbaud. Essai sur sa postérité", by Réjean Beaudoin

October 29, 2017

Assistant Professor of French, Medieval Studies

October 23, 2017

The Ximena Osegueda Prize 2016

October 10, 2017

Study in Italy Program - Application deadline December 7, 2017

October 10, 2017

UBC tandem Language Learning Program

September 12, 2017

Prof. Gloria Onyeoziri receives SSHRC grant to study utopian memory in African and Caribbean Literatures

September 11, 2017

FHIS Learning Centre is now open!

September 11, 2017

Oral Defence: Sara Barnard

September 5, 2017

New Book: “The Holy Mountain”, by Alessandra Santos

August 17, 2017

Language assistant program in Valencia- Spain

August 2, 2017

Portuguese 405

July 26, 2017

Spanish 357

July 23, 2017

New book: Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas, edited by Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos

June 2, 2017

Sessional Lecturer Positions: Winter Session 2017

May 15, 2017

Congratulations to FHIS's newest doctoral scholarship recipients

May 4, 2017

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Dr. Arianna Dagnino

April 10, 2017

SSHRC – Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program Awarded to Nayid Contreras

April 10, 2017

Graduate Student Symposium 2017

April 4, 2017

"Global Routes: China, Italy, Toronto", an intercultural exhibition presented at UBC Robson Square (March 17-April 14)

March 17, 2017

New book: "Sade: A Biographical Essay", by Laurence L. Bongie, now available in French

March 9, 2017

Sessional Lecturer Positions: Summer Session 2017

March 3, 2017

New book: Comprehending and Speaking about Motion in L2 Spanish. A Case of Implicit Learning in Anglophones, by Samuel A. Navarro Ortega

February 25, 2017

New book: Fricciones, by Gabriel Saldías Rossel

February 7, 2017

Spanish for Community event at South Granville Senior Center

January 30, 2017

Research opportunity for undergraduate students

January 20, 2017

Explore and Odyssey: Canada's official languages programs (deadlines)

January 12, 2017

Make Community Connections! Reading Week Projects for FHIS students

January 12, 2017

FHIS Learning Centre Schedule: now online!

January 10, 2017

Hispanic Research Seminar – Spring Schedule

January 5, 2017

Introducing “Spanish for Community” New Blog

November 23, 2016

The Ximena Osegueda Prize 2015

October 28, 2016

Be the next teaching assistant in France!

October 25, 2016

Hampton Fund Research Grant awarded to Dr. Gaoheng Zhang

October 18, 2016

Sessional Teaching (Spanish), 2016W - Term 2

October 18, 2016

Oral Defence: Margherita Romengo

October 14, 2016

Hispanic Research Seminar - Fall Schedule

October 14, 2016

Oral Defence: José Feliciano Lara Aguilar

September 8, 2016

Imagine Day

September 3, 2016

Meeting the Faculty of Arts Literature Requirement with FHIS Courses

August 22, 2016

Chiara Falangola: Graduate Q&A

August 16, 2016

Instructor of French (tenure-track)

August 16, 2016

FHIS Student Jennifer A. Nagtegaal wins best essay prize

June 15, 2016

Sessional Teaching 2016-2017

May 26, 2016

French student Jory Smallenberg wins UBC's Wesbrook Scholarship

May 11, 2016

FREN499

May 5, 2016

SSHRC - Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral’s Program Awarded to Jennifer A. Nagtegaal

May 2, 2016

SSHRC - Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program Awarded to Ross Swanson

April 27, 2016

Another Distinction for FHIS Student

January 29, 2016

The Ximena Osegueda Prize 2014

January 29, 2016

Roger Chartier's lecture, "What is a Book?", now available online

January 29, 2016

Global Seminar 2016: Stories in Motion - Travel Writing in France

November 10, 2015

Graduate French Program Contact information

October 20, 2015