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 December 1, 2022. 

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. 2022. “Language and Racial Attitudes Toward French Varieties in a Second-Language Context.” The Canadian Modern Language Review.

---. “Language Ideologies and Second Language Acquisition: The Case of French Long-Term Residents in Sweden.” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, pp. 1-16. (Fanny Forsberg Lundell, Klara Arvidsson, and Marie-Eve Bouchard)

Casas Aguilar, Anna. Bilingual Legacies. Father Figures in Self-writing from Barcelona. U of Toronto P, 2022.

---. “Maternidad y sexo en Permafrost (2018) y Boulder (2020) de Eva Baltasar” ALCES XXI: Journal of
       Contemporary Spanish Literature & Film. Special issue edited by Olga Albarrán Caselles and Marina
       Bettaglio. Forthcoming, 2022.

Glas, Annabelle & Marie-Eve Bouchard. 2022. Review of Blackness and la Francophonie: Anti-Black Racism, Linguicism and the Construction and Negotiation of Multiple Minority Identities by Amal Madibbo (Laval UP). Canadian Journal of African Studies / Journal canadien d’études africaines.

---. 2022. Review of Blackness and la Francophonie: Anti-Black Racism, Linguicism and the Construction and Negotiation of Multiple Minority Identities by Amal Madibbo (Laval UP). Canadian Journal of African Studies / Journal canadien d’études africaines.

Lagresa-González, Elizabeth. “Cervantes’ Defense of ‘Cosas Humildes’: Rendering the Lowly through Pictorial and Literary Cross-Contamination in the Prologue to the ‘Novelas Ejemplares.’” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, vol. 42, no. 2, forthcoming, 2022.

Mitchell, Tamara. “Migration and Diaspora: Central American Literature Beyond the Isthmus,” Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context, edited by Mónica Albizúrez and Gloria E. Chacón, Modern Language Association of America, 2022, pp. 262-74.

Mitchell, Tamara, and Amanda M. Smith. “The Regional Novel and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution on Common Ground.” Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel. Co-authored with Amanda M. Smith, UC Santa Cruz, eds. Ignacio López-Calvo and Juan E. De Castro. Forthcoming, November 2022.

Ayan, Irem. “Gendered Dynamics in Conference Interpreting: Emotional Labour and Alienation.” Faculty and Community Seminar on Interpreting Studies and Practice, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, online, October 20, 2022.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. 2022. “The Enregisterment of a Distinctive use of Rhotics with Santomean Identity. Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 Inside and Beyond Binaries, Ghent, Belgium, July 13-16.

---. “The Productive Status of Canadian French Liaison: Variation across Words and Grammar Number.” GLOW 45 (The 45th Generative Linguistics in the Old World Colloquium), London, UK, April 27-29. (Anne-Michelle Tessier, Karen Jesney, Roger Lo, Kaili Vesik, Marie-Eve Bouchard)

Canuto, Luisa. “Adopting and Adapting a Language MOOC: A study to evaluate students’ experience in Intermediate Italian Blended Course.” American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI), Lucca (Italy), May 26, 2022.

---. “Roundtable: Developing and Using Open Educational Resources in the Italian Curriculum.” American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI), Lucca (Italy), May 26, 2022.

---. “Collaborative Online International Projects to Develop Intercultural Competency.” American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI), Lucca (Italy), May 28, 2022.

---. “Round Table: Strengthening and Expanding University Italian Programs.” American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI), Lucca (Italy), May 28, 2022.

---. “Collaborative Online International Projects to Develop Intercultural Competency.” Canadian Association of Italian Studies (CAIS), Sorrento (Italy), June 4, 2022.

---. “Round Table: Rethinking Teaching and Learning Italian: Cross-institutional Practises.” Canadian Association of Italian Studies (CAIS), Sorrento (Italy), June 6, 2022.

---. “Roundtable: Pronunciation Open Resources: Sharing H5P-Based Active Learning and Visual Tutorials for Pronunciation through an LMS,” Celebrate Learning Week, online, UBC, May 12, 2022.

---. Chair. “Supporting our Teaching and Improving Students’ Learning with Evidence-Based Research.” American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI), Lucca (Italy), May 26, 2022.

Castonguay-Bélanger, Joël. "Le centenaire de Voltaire dans la presse canadienne." Paper presented at Journées d’échanges scientifiques « Voltaire et les Lumières au Québec : histoire ancienne ou nécessité présente ? », Université de Sherbrooke, April 7-8, 2022.

---. “Déboulonner les Lumières.” Congrès de la société Canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle, Ottawa, October 26-29, 2022.

Glas Annabelle. “A portée de plume, sortir du cadre. Journée d’étude sur l’enseignement de l’écriture créative. Durham. Royaume Uni, September 9, 2022.

Lagresa-Gonzalez, Elizabeth. “Masculine Investments: Mapping Transatlantic Trans-actions in Erauso’s 'Historia de la monja Alférez.'” Economy and Literature in Spain and beyond. Presenter and Co-organizer 2 Panels. Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Toronto, Canada, June 2-5, 2022.

---. “The Many Lives of Guiomar in the Ibero-Atlantic World: Representations of Black African Female Slaves in Lope de Rueda’s Comedia ‘Los engañados’ and Cervantes’s Novella ‘El celoso extremeño.’” The Comedia Between Two Worlds / La comedia entre dos mundos. Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Almagro, Spain, July 4-7, 2022.

Mitchell, Tamara. “From deshumanización to desapropiación: Central American Migration in the Mexican Novel.” Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, June 2022 (virtual)

---. “The Sounds and Spatiality of Crisis in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive.” XL Latin American Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, May 2022 (virtual)

---. “In the Key of Crisis: Intermediality and Economic Migration in Laury Leite’s En la soledad de un cielo muerto.” XXVI Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, UC Irvine, April 2022.

Orizaga Doguim, Daniel. “Barroco y naturaleza en la Historia de las Indias de Acosta”. CIVIS Graduate Network: Baroque/Neo-Baroque, UAM Madrid (Spain), May 4-6, 2022.

---. “Corporalidad barroca o cómo experimentar la naturaleza del Nuevo Mundo”. XVIII Congreso Internacional ALEPH, Queen’s College Cambridge (England), August 22-25, 2022.

Victoriano-Martínez, Ramón Antonio. “El canon inconcluso: Una guía para leer a Norberto James Rawlings”. Public lecture sponsored by the Centro Cultural de España and the Spanish Embassy in Dominican Republic, July 28, 2022.

---. “Alardear del cabello, ocultar las orejas”, 46th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, June 2, 2022.

---. “Como sobrevivir al postrujillismo y no morir en el intento: memoria y desilusión en tres novelas dominicanas”, XL International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 8, 2022.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. “Fostering linguistic security among young French speakers in British Columbia”. 2022-2023.

---. SSHRC Connection Grant, 2022 ($28,240). “Language Attitudes and their Social Consequences in Diverse Contexts, 2022. (PI: Amanda Cardoso. Co-applicant: Marie-Eve Bouchard, Molly Babel, Erez Levon)

Lagresa-González, Elizabeth. “Renaissance Society of America: Women on/from the Margins.” SSHRC Exchange Grant: Arts International Conference Travel Grant, 2022 ($2,000).

Mitchell, Tamara. The Sounds of Latin American Literature: Conference & Workshop, SSHRC Exchange Workshop Grant, 2022 ($2000).

---. SSHRC Exchange Arts International Conference Travel Grant, Washington DC, 2022 ($2000).

Canuto, Luisa, and Daniela Boccassini. Co-organizers. “Biocultural Diversity and Language Learning,” presented by Luisa Maffi, FHIS, November 3, 2022.

---. “Biocultural Diversity,” presented by Luisa Maffi, “Multilanguage Learning Week,” UBC, November 4, 2022.

Casas Aguilar, Anna. Organizing Committee, Jornades d’estiu de la North American Catalan Society, 11 July 2022, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona.

Castonguay-Bélanger, Joël. Organizer. “Enseigner les Lumières au XXIe siècle”, Table ronde, Congrès de la Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle, Ottawa, October 26-29, 2022.

Mitchell, Tamara. Co-Organizer. Listening with the Eyes: The Sounds of Latin American Literature Conference. UBC, October 14-15, 2022.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. Atlas sonore des variétés de français au Canada. https://atlas-sonore.fhis.ubc.ca/.