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 March 1, 2024. 

Beauchesne, Kim, and Alessandra Santos. “Utopian Ecologies: The Amazonia as Environmental Futurity.” Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds: Alternative Political Projects after the Sovereign State, edited by Julia María Urabayen Pérez and Jorge León, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (forthcoming).

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. “The Hierarchization of French Varieties in an English-Dominant Context of Canada.” Canadian Modern Language Review, vol. 79, no. 4, 2023, pp. 322-351. doi: 10.3138/cmlr-2022-0062.

---. “J’va share mon étude sur les anglicismes avec vous autres! A sociolinguistic approach to an innovative use of anglicisms in Quebec French.” Journal of French Languages Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, 2023, pp. 168-196. doi:10.1017/S0959269523000054.

---. “The role of music in the (re)valorization of Forro.” Creole Languages and Music, edited by Joseph Farquharson, Andrea Hollington, and Byron Jones, The University of West Indies Press, 2023, pp. 64-88.

Casas, Anna, co-author. “Introduction. Presents and Futures of Catalan Studies: A North American Perspective.” Catalan Review, vol. 37, no. 1, 2023, pp. 57–64.

---. co-editor. “Presents and Futures of Catalan Studies: A North American Perspective.” Special issue, Catalan Review, vol. 37, no. 1, 2023.

Delage-Béland, Isabelle. Les Fabliaux. Fiction, vraisemblance et genre littéraire. Classiques Garnier, 2024 (forthcoming).

Escobar Trujillo, María Adelaida. “Círculo protector,” “Noviembre,” “Todo termina por olvidarse.” Arte y literatura hispanocanadiense, edited by Clara Alfaro, Feria Iberoamericana del Libro en Canadá, 2023, pp. 91-92.

---. “Vuelo de mosca,” “Cuando mi hermano tenía barba,” “El regalo de papá,” “Sábados de Bromont,” “Veinte centímetros de nieve,” “Quarry Rock.” Nueve de nueve, Lavanda Editores, 2023, pp. 125-138.

Huberman, Isabella. “‘Un barrage dans la gorge’: Théorie du castor dans Okinum d’Émilie Monnet.” Québec Studies, vol. 75, no. 1, 2023, pp. 39-60.

---. Histoires souveraines : poétiques du personnel dans les littératures autochtones au Québec. Presses de l’Université de Montréal, “Expressions autochtones” Series, 2023.

---. “Looking Back in Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood. Research, Remembrance and Reclamation of a Hydro Story.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 46, 2023, pp. 280-301.

Mitchell, Tamara. “Rewriting the Militant Left: Untranslatability and Dissensus in Horacio Castellanos Moya.” Central American Literature as World Literature, edited by Sophie Esch, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Academic World Literature Series, October 2023, pp. 155-171.

Moran, Patrick, translator and editor. Les Planétaires. By John Brunner, Mnémos, 2023.

Ortiz, Rodolfo. Nudos y enredos: revistas andinas del siglo XX. Plural, 2023, https://mariposamundial.com/book-collection/nudos-y-enredos/.

---. “(Ultra)orbicismos y transfrontera en la revista Cunan (1931-1932).” América Crítica, vol. 8, no. 1, June 2024, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, Dir. Riccardo Badini (forthcoming).

---. editor. La Mariposa Mundial. Revista de Literatura, special issue on “El pensamiento del poema,” vol. 28 (forthcoming).

Pellegrin, Annick. “Mexico’s Conquest, Independence and Revolution according to Rius.” Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics, edited by Harriet E. H. Earle and Martin Lund, Routledge, 2023, pp. 89-105.

Roca, Andrea. “Descolonización e indigenización de la historia, de la pintura histórica y de los museos: el arte de Kent Monkman.” Roots & Routes. Research on Visual Cultures, Year XIII, no. 41, January-April 2023, https://www.roots-routes.org/year-xiii-n41-january-april-2023-americas/.

Zamora Quesada, Pamela. Review of The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics, by Ren Ellis Neyra. Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, vol. 6, no. 2, 2022, pp. 109-111. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.2979/chiricu.6.2.10.

Beauchesne, Kim. “Sincronía global y vinculaciones textuales: la relevancia de la Embajada Keichō en la narrativa hispánica (1613-2022).” XLI Latin American Studies Association Conference, Vancouver, May 2023. Presenter and Panel Organizer.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve, and Catherine Levasseur. “Favoriser la sécurité linguistique des francophones dans les contextes anglo-dominants du Canada.” Colloque du CCERBAL, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, May 4-6, 2023. Round Table Organizers.

Canuto, Luisa. “Developing and Using Open Educational Resources in the Italian Curriculum.” Canadian Association of Italian Studies (CAIS) Conference, Montreal, May 7, 2023.

---. “Improving Students’ Learning with Evidence-Based Research.” Canadian Association of Italian Studies (CAIS) Conference, Montreal, May 4, 2023.

---. “Integrating Advocacy Strategies for your Italian Program.” Canadian Association of Italian Studies (CAIS) Conference, Montreal, May 6, 2023.

Casas, Anna. “Barcelona No: turistes, distopies i futur a l’espai urbà.” II Seminari d’Estiu, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain, July 11, 2023.

---. “Metaphors of Invasions in Contemporary Spanish Documentary.” Joint public talk with Prof. Mónica López Lerma (Reed College), Center of European Studies Research Colloquium Series, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 12, 2023. Invited by Prof. Ilinca Iuraşcu.

---. “Oriol Bohigas: Straight Lines, Culture, and Design as Forms of Social Exclusion.” Lecture as part of the MA Program that the University of Calgary, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape has in Barcelona, Spain, May 23, 2023. Invited by Prof. Rafael Gómez-Moriana.

---. “Sexuals, sexualitzades: cos, pell i urticària a Creatura (2023) d’Elena Martín.” The LXVIII Annual Anglo-Catalan Society’s Conference, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 10-11, 2023.

---. “Teorías y prácticas en la escritura de un libro.” Workshop for the graduate students in the Hispanic Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 15, 2023, online. Invited by Prof. Eloi Grasset.

Huberman, Isabella. “Quelques réflexions sur la création d’un zine critique.” “30 ans d’études littéraires autochtones au Québec” Conference, Laval University, Quebec City, May 11-12, 2023.

Mitchell, Tamara. “Necropolitical Romeo and Juliet: Migrant Sonority against Dehumanization in Emiliano Monge’s Las tierras arrasadas.” Taft Public Lecture Series, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, March 2023. Invited Speaker.

---. “Precarious Orality: The Sounds of Forced Migration in Two Mexican Novels.” Sponsored Session, “The Working Conditions of Sound Studies,” Presidential Theme, Modern Language Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, January 2023.

---. “Sound Unseen: Auscultating Gendered Violence in Guadalupe Nettel.” XLI Latin American Studies Association Conference, Vancouver, May 2023.

---. “Weeping Women: La Llorona’s Presence in Modern Latinx and Chicanx Lore.” Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Seattle, March 2023. Round Table Panelist.

Moran, Patrick. “De l’impact des transformations médiatiques sur l’écriture sérielle : l’exemple des cycles arthuriens du XIIIe siècle.” Sérialités narratives, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, January 26-29, 2023.

Ortiz, Rodolfo. “Bandera Roja: (des)articulaciones y campos de fuerza.” Bolivian Studies Asociation Congress, Sucre, Bolivia, July 2023.

---. “Densidades y representaciones de la embajada Keichō en la novela Lejanos guerreros de Héctor Palacios.” XLI Latin American Studies Association Conference, Vancouver, May 2023.

---. “¿El virus del dragón o un pequeño covicho? Variation and change in COVID-19 metaphors across varieties of Spanish.” 16th RaAM Conference, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 28-30, 2023.

Pellegrin, Annick. “Alicia Jaraba Abellán’s Soy la Malinche/Celle qui parle: Speaking on/for a legendary speaker.” FHIS Research Seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 5, 2023.

---. “Coloniality and Nutrition in Rius’s Oeuvre.” International Comic Arts Forum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 20-22, 2023.

Roca, Andrea. “A história que a história não conta: a pintura histórica de Kent Monkman.” 3rd International Lusophone Meeting, ALL ARTS ALL NAMES 2023, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, June 21-23, 2023.

Canuto, Luisa, Co-Organizer, Canadian Association of Italian Studies (CAIS), Annual Conference, Montreal, May 4-7, 2023.

Casas, Anna, Co-Organizer, II Seminari d’Estiu, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain, July 11, 2023.

Delage-Béland, Isabelle, Patrick Moran, and Anne Salamon. “Redefining Courtliness: 17th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society.” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 24-28, 2023.

Mitchell, Tamara, Convener and Co-Organizer (with Prof. Kim Beauchesne), invited lecture by Prof. Luis Cárcamo-Huechante (University of Texas at Austin), “In Times of Acoustic Colonialism: The Enduring Sounds of the Mapuche.” Sound Silence Power Thematic Series, Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, November 2023.

---. Organizer, invited lecture by Prof. Carolina Sá Carvalho (University of Toronto), “How to See a Scar.” FHIS Research Seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, November 2023.

---. Convener and Co-Organizer (with Prof. Kim Bain), invited lecture by Prof. Christina Sharpe (York University), “What Could a Vessel Be?” Sound Silence Power Thematic Series, Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 2023.

---. Convener and Co-Organizer, Campus Soundwalk, led by Duncan McHugh (UBC), Sound Silence Power Thematic Series, Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, September 2023.

---. Co-Organizer (with Prof. Dylan Robinson and Prof. Julen Etxabe), invited lecture by Prof. Trevor Reed (Arizona State University), “Restorative Justice for Indigenous Voices.” Sound Silence Power Thematic Series, Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 2023.

Beauchesne, Kim (PI). “Green Narratives: Literary Voices from the Amazon.” Public Humanities Hub Seed Grant, $2,500, 2023-2024.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve (PI), and Molly Babel. “Investigating a changing use of anglicisms in Quebec French.” UBC Language Sciences, $8,000, 2023-2024.

Casas, Anna (PI). “Images of Difference: Regionalisms, Gender, and the Evolution of Tourism in Spain (1960-2020).” SSHRC Insight Grant, $58,636, 2023-2028.

Mitchell, Tamara (PI). Green College Interdisciplinary Thematic Series Fund, University of British Columbia, $10,000, 2023-2024.

---. (PI). “Maize in Mayan AgriCulture: Workshop and Dialogue.” Advancing Community Engaged Learning Fund (LAST 315), University of British Columbia, $1,000, 2023.

Moran, Patrick (PI). “The Celestial Emporium: A Study of the Emergence of Narrative Genres in Medieval French Literature.” SSHRC Insight Grant, $55,858, 2023-2026.

Salamon, Anne (PI), Isabelle Delage-Béland, and Patrick Moran. “Redefining Courtliness: 17th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society.” SSHRC Connection Grant, $21,972, 2023.

Ortiz, Rodolfo. Política Común. A Journal for Thought. Joined the Editorial Board in October 2023, https://politicacomun.com/editors/.

Escobar Trujillo, María Adelaida. Winner of the Inspirational Latin Award in Arts and Culture, Latincouver, April 15, 2023.

Delage-Béland, Isabelle. “La Société internationale de la littérature courtoise en congrès à UBC,” interview by Hassan Laghcha. La Source. Forum de la diversité, vol. 24, no. 3, 2023, https://thelasource.com/fr/2023/07/10/la-societe-internationale-de-la-litterature-courtoise-en-congres-a-ubc/.

Moran, Patrick, guest. “Culture et confiture.” Item on the 17th Congress of the ICLS, ICI Radio-Canada Première, July 22, 2023.

---. guest. “Culture et confiture.” Round table on the Salon du livre de Vancouver, ICI Radio-Canada Première, May 27, 2023.

---. guest. “Tous à Zanzibar.” C’est plus que de la SF, season 3, episode 155, March 13, 2023, https://www.cestplusquedelasf.com/podcasts/tous-a-zanzibar.