The FHIS Research & Educational Leadership Digest provides an update on research- and educational leadership-related initiatives of the faculty members and graduate students in UBC's Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies—such as publications, conference attendance, calls for papers, media presence, and more. If you would like to be included in the next edition, submit your research news through the online form that will be circulated closer to its publication date.

Bartalesi-Graff, Daniela, and Luisa Canuto. “Adopting and Adapting a Language MOOC: Learning from Students’ Experience in Intermediate Italian Blended Courses.” The Art of Teaching Italian, Georgetown University Press, June 2024 (released August 2024), pp. 234-256.

Boccassini, Daniela. “Hidden Meaning amidst the Chaos of Life: Jung’s Encounters with Philemon, Anima, and Their Ancestry.” International Journal of Jungian Studies, 2025, pp. 1–29, doi:10.1163/19409060-tat00004.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. “Discourses of Language Endangerment and Maintenance Among Young Bi/Plurilingual Speakers of a Francophone Minority School in Vancouver.” Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 2025, pp. 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2025.2469086.

—. “Investigating attitudes towards a changing use of anglicisms in Quebec French.” Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 2025, pp. 1-26, doi:10.1017/cnj.2024.32.

—. “A youth perspective on the challenges related to fostering linguistic security in the classroom: New insights from the English-dominant context of British Columbia.” Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024, Advanced Online Publication, https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/CJAL/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/79.

Laroussi, Farid. Francophone Literature After the Postcolonial Age. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.

Salamon, Anne. Medieval French on the Move: Studies in Honour of Keith Busby, edited by Leah Tether, Patrick Moran, and Anne Salamon, De Gruyter, 2025.

—. “Sébastien Mamerot, auteur du traité des Trois Grands?” “Pour ce que l’istoire est encoires de longue narration.” Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales en l’honneur du professeur Gilles Roussineau, edited by Hélène Biu, Sandrine Hériché-Pradeau, Géraldine Veysseyre et al., Classiques Garnier, 2025, pp. 443-471.

Blanc, Magali, Luisa Canuto, Jennifer Nagtegaal, and Brianne Orr-Álvarez. “Changing Course: Hybrid Courses in FHIS.” Poster Presentation, TLEF Showcase, CTLT (UBC), May 7, 2025.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. “‘Tu parles bien pour une anglophone!’ Une invitation à examiner le développement de la sécurité linguistique chez les jeunes francophones de la Colombie-Britannique.” Sommet sur la transmission linguistique en Colombie-Britannique, Victoria, BC, March 14, 2025.

Casas, Anna. Book discussant for Infancia y cine en la larga transición española (Cátedra, 2024), with the author, Sarah Thomas (Brown University), as well as Gonzalo de Lucas Abril (Pompeu Fabra) and Annalisa Mirizio (UB), Librería Documenta, Barcelona, December 3, 2024.

—. Interview with Professor Rosi Song as part of the Ex Libris Series to promote Bilingual Legacies, online, December 3, 2024. Event hosted by the Instituto Cervantes from Manchester and Durham University.

—. “Space and Tourism in Spain.” Invitation to a graduate seminar, University of Toronto, March 4, 2025.

—. “Stories of Loss: Tourism, Gender and Precarity.” FHIS Research Seminar, UBC, February 13, 2025.

Castonguay-Bélanger, Joël. “Sylvain Maréchal: le volcan de la liberté.” University of Victoria, April 4, 2025.

Marchant, Katherine. “Metafiction, Metanarration and Fictionality in Modiano and Binet’s Representation of World War II.” FHIS Graduate Student Symposium, UBC, April 15, 2025.

—. “Oppression of a Humanoid Species: Oms en série and La planète sauvage.” Infuturarsi: Imagining and Depicting the Future, University of Pittsburgh, April 4, 2025.

Victoriano-Martínez, Ramón Antonio. “Black Latin American and Afro-Latinx Scholarship and Stories.” Part of the course LATAM/ABLD 3A03 - Black Latin America: Belonging, Refusal, Resistance, McMaster University, February 27, 2025.

—. “Labour Conditions in Caribbean Studies.” Panelist, Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025.

—. “‘La tristeza nos precede’: Poetry and resistance in the early works of Norberto James Rawlings.” Centre for Caribbean Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto, April 4, 2025.

Canuto, Luisa, Organizer. “Effective Assessment and Learning in Language-focused Courses using CEFR and ACTFL.” UBC Language Sciences, December 9, 2024.

Canuto, Luisa, Co-Organizer. Canadian Association of Italian Studies (CAIS), June 6-10, Bologna, Italy.

Casas, Anna, Organizer and Chair. “The Unseen in Catalan Studies.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, New Orleans, January 9, 2025.

Marchant, Katherine, Co-Organizer. “Crossing Borders, Bridging Cultures.” FHIS Graduate Student Symposium, UBC, April 15, 2025.

Canuto, Luisa. “‘Experiencing’ the language with mind and heart: Community-Engagement opportunities for UBC students from the Italian program.” Advancing Community Engaged Learning Fund, $3,400, 2024-2025.

Delage-Béland, Isabelle, and Anne Salamon. “Modernizing Traditional French Grammar Courses: Towards an Active, Descriptive, and Inclusive Approach for Advanced Students.” UBC Small TLEF, $6,142, 2025-2026.

Victoriano-Martínez, Ramón Antonio et al. “Latin American and Caribbean Landscapes.” Grants for Catalizing Research Clusters (Principal Investigator: Ben Bryce), $200,000, 2025-2027.

Zamora Quesada, Pamela. “Archival Dialogues in Central America: Examining Costa Rican Literature’s Contestation to Environmental Degradation in the Neoliberal Era.” 2025 Dean of Arts Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), $1,840, 2025-2026.

Beauchesne, Kim. Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring, 2024.

Canuto, Luisa. Dean of Arts Educational Leadership and Innovation Award, 2025.

Marchant, Katherine. Postsecondary Studies in French as a Second Language Program Award, 2025.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. “Comprendre l’insécurité linguistique.” Interview with journalist Julie Carpentier for Le Téléjournal Colombie-Britannique, Radio-Canada, March 19, 2025, https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/videos/1-10330866/comprendre-insecurite-linguistique?partageApp=rcca_appmobile_appinfo_android.

—. “La sécurité linguistique est la clé pour la transmission du français, selon des jeunes.” Interview with journalist Julie Landry, Radio-Canada, March 15, 2025, https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2148112/francophonie-insecurite-linguistique-sommet-transmission.

Escobar Trujillo, María Adelaida. Character of Elisa from Tiempo del sur (2018) selected for interview with Selene Botero for Plumas literarias: un viaje audiovisual por la literatura LGTBIQ+ de Antioquia. Teleantioquia, April 7, 2025,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGNfClcQDWo&list=PLxkzKFMZFw7P556YwkHvStpdgTNG_f1bf&index=44/.

Gélinas-Lemaire, Vincent. Resident Fellow Position, Institute for Advanced Studies of the Université de Lyon (Collegium de Lyon), 2025-2026.