The FHIS Research Digest provides a quarterly update on research-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 by September 15, 2024

Albarrán Caselles, Olga. “Maternidad, crimen e investigación en Las madres no de Katixa Agirre.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. IX, no. 2, 2022, pp. 47-69.

Albarrán Caselles, Olga, and Marina Bettaglio, guest editors. Maternidad, Reproducción social y cuidados en la época neoliberal: Cuestionando el imaginario patriarcal, special issue of Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature & Film, no. 5, 2021-2023.

Boccassini, Daniela. “The Invisible Teacher and His Disciples: C. G. Jung’s and Henry Corbin’s Approaches to ‘the Green One.’” Transcultural Dialogues, vol. 12, no. 1, 2023, pp. 22-36.

---. “Listening for the Silent Voices.” Via nova: emergenze dell’Oltre da Lascaux a oggi / Emergences of the Beyond from Lascaux to Today, edited by Daniela Boccassini, special issue of Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei, WriteUp Books, vol. 14, 2023, pp. 11-36.

---. “La luce interiore: Serveto e la libertà dello spirito.” Via nova: emergenze dell’Oltre da Lascaux a oggi / Emergences of the Beyond from Lascaux to Today, edited by Daniela Boccassini, special issue of Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei, WriteUp Books, vol. 14, 2023, pp. 305-320.

---, editor. Via nova: emergenze dell’Oltre da Lascaux a oggi / Emergences of the Beyond from Lascaux to Today, special issue of Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei, WriteUp Books, vol. 14, 2023.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. “Examining language and racial attitudes in an L2 French learning context.” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2298690.

---. “Language ideologies and the use of French in an English-dominant context of Canada: New insights into linguistic security.” Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, vol. 43, no. 3, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2023-0109.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve, Catherine Levasseur, and Constantin Ntiranyibagira, guest editors. From Linguistic Insecurity to Security: Complexity and Diversity of Contexts, special issue of Cahiers de l’ILOB, vol. 13, 2023. https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ottawa/index.php/ILOB-OLBI/issue/view/659.

Brunner, John. Le Voyageur en noir, edited with a revised translation by Patrick Moran, Mnémos, 2024.

Casas Aguilar, Anna. “Juegos, silencios y conciencia autorial en Estiu 1993 de Carla Simón (2017).” Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 2024, pp. 1–19. Published online on April 25, 2024; printed version forthcoming. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24741604.2024.2335038.

Dagnino, Arianna. Preface. “Transculturality as a Method of Inquiry, a Theoretical Framework, and a Process of Identity Formation.” Cartographies of the Transcultural in the Contemporary: Insights from Cultural Studies and Literature, edited by Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo, Peter Lang Publishers, forthcoming.

Escobar Trujillo, María Adelaida, et al. Nueve de Nueve. Lavanda Editoras, 2024.

Gélinas-Lemaire, Vincent. “De boue et d’os : vers une poétique de l’érosion dans le contemporain.” Cahiers de l’AIEF, edited by Àngels Santa and Encarnación Medina Arjona, Paris, no. 75, 2024, pp. 141-155.

Mitchell, Tamara L., and Amanda M. Smith, co-editors. Latin American Literary Aurality, special issue of Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 53, no. 3, October 2023 (released March 2024).

Mitchell, Tamara L. “Sounding Out the Text: Approaches to Latin American Literary Aurality.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 53, no. 3, October 2023 (released March 2024), pp. 365-378.

Victoriano-Martínez, Ramón A. Rayanos y Dominicanyorks: La dominicanidad del siglo XXI (2nd ed.). Universitaria Bonó, Santo Domingo, RD, 2024.

Zamora Quesada, Pamela. “Sonoridades de posguerra en Baile con serpientes (1996) de Horacio Castellanos Moya.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 57 no. 3, 2023, p. 477-498. https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2023.a924209.

Beauchesne, Kim. “Decolonizing Patagonia: Mapuche Cultural Interventions and Indigenous Futurity.” 10th Latin America Research Group Workshop, University of Victoria, Victoria, March 16, 2024.

Boccassini, Daniela. “Waterways of the Soul: On Dante’s Quest for Meaning and Cosmic Indigeneity.” Invited Lecture. College of Charleston, Department of Francophone and Italian Studies, Charleston, October 26, 2023.

---. “The Way that Leads to Water Leads to Soul.” The Emergence of Soul: Jung and the Islamic World through Lecture and Art, International Association of Jungian Studies (IAJS) Conference, online, December 1-3, 2023. https://jungstudies.net/2023/10/upcoming-iajs-virtual-conference/.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. “La hiérarchisation des variétés de français dans un contexte anglo-dominant du Canada.” Invited Talk. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, March 21, 2024.

Casas Aguilar, Anna. “Tourism and Spaces of Resistance in Spain after 2008.” Roundtable. Guaranteed Session for the 20th- and 21st-Century Iberian Studies LLC, MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024.

---. “Turistes i crisis: escenaris de la precarietat.” 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, April 18–20, 2024.

Gélinas-Lemaire, Vincent, “Fleurs d’apocalypse : botaniques imaginaires et réelles chez Volodine et Senges.” Colloque International sur les Stratégies réalistes dans les littératures de l’imaginaire, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, April 2024.

Marchant, Katherine. “L’anaphore et l’allégorie comme émetteurs du traumatisme dans La familia grande.” LSU French GSA Conference, Louisiana State University, online, April 5, 2024.

Mitchell, Tamara L. “La comunidad única: Listening as Community and Care in Guadalupe Nettel.” XXVIII Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, UC Irvine, CA, April 2024.

---. “Echoes of a Migrant Crisis: Narrative Attunement and Sound as Ethics in 21st-Century Border Novels.” Reed College, Portland, April 2024.

---. “Listening in the Anthropocene: Migrant Sonority and More-than-Human Perspectivism in Emiliano Monge’s Las tierras arrasadas.” El coloquio interdisciplinario, Department of Languages and Cultures, Western University Ontario, online, March 2024.

---. “Sound Unseen: Auscultating Gendered Violence in Mexican Fiction.” Sound Silence Power Thematic Series, Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster, UBC Green College, Vancouver, February 2024.

Zamora Quesada, Pamela. “The ‘grito feminista’ through a personal archive: El invencible verano de Liliana (2021) by Cristina Rivera Garza.” 10th Latin America Research Group Workshop, University of Victoria, Victoria, March 16, 2024.

Casas Aguilar, Anna, Co-Organizer, “Tourism and Spaces of Resistance in Spain after 2008” Roundtable, Guaranteed Session for the 20th- and 21st-Century Iberian Studies LLC, MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024.

Mitchell, Tamara L., Convener and Co-Organizer (with Prof. Rosanne Sia), invited lecture by Prof. Casey Mecija (York University), “Sounds That Mark Our Words: Sonic Agencies & Intimacies in Filipinx Diaspora,” Sound Silence Power Thematic Series, Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster, UBC Green College, Vancouver, January 2024.

Moran, Patrick, Carl Ruest, Meike Wernicke, Annabelle Glas, Emmy Issartial, and Gabriela Penkov, Co-Organizers, “Espoirs critiques,” Colloque en études francophones (CEFCP) 2024, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 25-26, 2024.

Beauchesne, Kim. “Amazonian Narratives in Times of Environmental Crisis.” SSHRC Explore Grant, $6,000, 2024-2025.

---. “Literary Ecologies: Reframing Narratives from the Amazon.” AURA Award, $3,000, 2024.

Chapman, Mary, Elizabeth Lagresa-González, Ramón A. Victoriano-Martínez, Daniel Orizaga Doguim, Sarah Revilla Sánchez, et al. “The Adaptive Text Encoding Initiative Network: Antiracist, Decolonial, and Inclusive Markup Interventions.” UBC PhD CoLab Pilot Program, $79,340, 2024-2025.

Delage-Béland, Isabelle. “Modernizing Traditional French Grammar Courses: Towards an Active, Descriptive, and Inclusive Approach for Advanced Students.” UBC Small TLEF, $16,250, 2024-2025.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. Anthony Lodge Journal of French Language Studies Research Award, 2024. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-french-language-studies/announcements/prizes-and-awards/anthony-lodge-jfls-research-award.

Casas Aguilar, Anna. Honorable Mention for outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies, North American Catalan Society (NACS), 2024.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. “Les biais dans l’enseignement francophone,” interview with journalist Grégory Bernard. Panorama, Radio-Canada, January 2, 2024. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/panorama/episodes/755614/rattrapage-mardi-2-janvier-2024.

---. “Comment favoriser la sécurité linguistique des jeunes francophones en Colombie-Britannique?,” interview with Kristin Reinke, Chaire pour le développement de la recherche sur la culture d’expression française en Amérique du Nord (CEFAN). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCHde4-MW-A.