Administrative and Committee Assignments
Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
I. OFFICERS:
Head – M. Meléndez
Associate Head – M. Bowles
Director of Graduate Studies – J. Irigoyen-García
Advisors to first year M.A. Students
Spanish Linguistics: Bowles
Hispanic Literatures: Irigoyen-García
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Spanish – Abbott
Undergraduate Advisor in Spanish (including Honors and Study Abroad) – Robles
Director of Introductory Spanish Language – Waters
Director of 4th Semester Spanish Language – Carollo
Director of Advanced Spanish Language – Henshaw
Director of Basic Language Instruction for Portuguese – Goebel
Undergraduate Advisor in Portuguese—Karam
Parliamentarian – Tolliver
Graduate Student Representative to Departmental Meetings – Lucía Sánchez
Basque Studies Mentor & Supervisor – Hualde
Catalan Studies Mentor & Supervisor – Hualde
Mi Pueblo Advisor: Carollo
Course Supervisors (AY 2020-2021):
SPAN 232 – Abbott
SPAN 252 – Jegerski
SPAN 248 -- Ledesma (Fall)
SPAN 250 – Martínez-Quiroga
SPAN 254 – Meléndez
SPAN 303 – Bowles (Fall), Hualde (Spring)
SPAN 305 – MacDonald
SPAN 307 – Bowles (Fall), Montrul (Spring)
I. STANDING COMMITTEES
Advisory Committee [elected] - Ledesma (2019-2021), MacDonald (2019-2021), Goldman (2020-2022), Hualde (2020-2022), Bowles (ex officio)
Study Abroad Committee - Escobar (Chair), Abbott, Bowles (Fall), Fornoff, Irigoyen, Montrul (Spring),
Robles, Arkaitz Ibarretxe (student)
Graduate Recruitment & Admissions - Irigoyen (Chair), Cervantes (Latin American Literature), Hualde (Spanish Linguistics), Jegerski (Spanish Linguistics), Karam (Portuguese)
Committee on Graduate Awards – Irigoyen (Chair, ex officio), Callesano, Goldman, Jegerski, Karam
Area Review Committees on Graduate Progress (including course scheduling and strategic planning within the group)
- Spanish Linguistics - Bowles (Chair-Fall), Montrul (Chair-Spring), Callesano, R. Delgado, Escobar, Hualde, Jegerski, MacDonald
- Spanish, Latin American Literatures/Cultures - Ledesma (Chair), Cervantes, E. Delgado, Fornoff, Goldman, Irigoyen-García, Karam, Meléndez, Tolliver, Torres-Cacoullos
- Portuguese - Karam (Chair), Goebel
Committee on Undergraduate Awards (Flores, Jugenheimer, Alvaro Monserrat Llardén, Borgeson, Pasquariello) - Abbott (Chair), R. Delgado, Escobar, Martínez-Quiroga, Tolliver
Curriculum Committee - Jegerski (Chair), Abbott (ex officio), Escobar, Goldman, Henshaw, Irigoyen (ex officio), Karam, Robles (ex officio), Tolliver, Aritz Regoyo (student)
Policy & Development – Tolliver (Chair), Fornoff, Goebel, Waters, Jone Vicente (student)
Capricious Grading Committee [elected -3] – Karam (Chair, 18-21), Cervantes (19-22), MacDonald (20-23), Kacie Gastanaga (student)
Lectures & Arrangements Committee – Fornoff (Chair), Callesano, R. Delgado, Cristina González (student)
Academic Integrity Violations Appeals Committee (elected-3) - Jegerski (Chair), Ledesma, MacDonald
Faculty Annual Review Committees (Evaluations must be completed by April 21 for non-tenure track
faculty and by May 15 for tenure track)
- Assistant Professors: All tenured faculty (Associate and Full professors)
- Associate Professors: E. Delgado, Escobar, Hualde, Irigoyen García, Meléndez, Montrul
- Non-tenure track faculty: Advisory committee (other faculty may be recruited if needed)
P&T Committee for Promotion from Associate Professor to Full: E. Delgado, Escobar, Hualde, Irigoyen, Meléndez, Montrul
Darlene Wolf Fellowship – Montrul (Chair), Escobar, Jegerski
Non-departmental Awards for Excellence – Goldman (Chair), Carollo, R. Delgado, Escobar (Fall), Martínez-Quiroga, Montrul (Spring), Tolliver
Website committee - Ledesma (Chair), Callesano, Cervantes, Caio Albernaz (student)
Proficiency evaluation committee (Fulbright, Study Abroad, other) - Martínez Quiroga (Chair), Carollo, Goebel, Henshaw, Waters
III. AD HOC COMMITTEES
Scheduling and Timetable committee - Bowles (Chair, Fall), Carollo, Henshaw, Hualde (Chair, Spring) Waters, Carmen Gallegos (student)
Third-year review committee for Vincent Cervantes - Ledesma (Chair), Goldman, Karam
IV. NON-DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES (School, College, Campus and U of I System wide)
Abbott, Ann:
- Campus Community Action and Public Engagement working group
- Fulbright Review Student Application Committee
- Campus Student Success initiative – Foundational Courses Task group
Bowles, Melissa:
- LAS Policy and Development Committee
- LAS Foreign Language Accommodations Committee
Callesano, Salvatore
- Faculty Working group on the UI-Mexico Collaboration
Cervantes, Vincent
- Faculty Working group on the UI-Mexico Collaboration
Delgado, Luisa Elena:
- Search committee for LAS Dean
- COHORT Committee
- LAS Humanities Council Committee (representing the School)
- Faculty Working group on the UI-Mexico Collaboration
Rodrigo, Delgado
- Faculty Working group on the UI-Mexico Collaboration
Escobar, Anna María:
- SLCL Executive Committee
- LAS - National and International Scholarships Program - Fulbright Program
Fornoff, Carolyn:
- LAS Global Studies Faculty Advisory Committee
- Fulbright Fall Review Student Application Committee
- Faculty Working Group on Undergraduate Research (IPRH & OUR)
- Faculty Working group on the UI-Mexico Collaboration
Hualde, José Ignacio
- Campus Research Board member
- Fulbright Committee
Henshaw, Florencia:
- Chair of the organizing committee for the Symposium on Language Pedagogy in Higher Education
Goebel, Raquel:
- Advisor for the Luso-Brazilian Student Association
- Leadership Coach for the Leadership Center
Goldman, Dara:
- PJCS Executive Committee
- Humanities Council Committee (representing PJCS)
Hualde, José Ignacio:
- Campus Research Board
Irigoyen-García, Javier:
- LAS Global Studies, Faculty Advisory Committee
Jegerski, Jill:
- Executive committee for the SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education)
- SLCL Curricular Facilities Committee
Karam, John:
- Funding Initiative for Multiracial Democracy, Campus Research Board, Ad Hoc Committee Member
- Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Advisory Committee Member
- Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, Advisory Board Member
Ledesma, Eduardo:
- NEH Summer Stipend selection Committee (Humanities Research Institute)
- Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Advisory Board for 2020-22
- Public Humanities Steering Committee
- Faculty Working group on the UI-Mexico Collaboration
- SLCL Curricular Initiatives Committee
MacDonald, Jonathan:
- LAS Committee on Academic Standards (CAS)
- Fulbright Fall Review Student Application Committee
Meléndez, Mariselle:
- Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure (2021-2023)
- College of LAS Strategic Advisory Team (STAR)
- College of LAS College of LAS Task Force on Tuition Revenue Sharing Programs
- Humanities Council Committee (representing Dept. Spanish and Portuguese)
- SLCL EO’s advisory group (representing Dept. Spanish and Portuguese)
- Faculty Working group on the UI-Mexico Collaboration
Montrul, Silvina:
- Member Executive Committee Social and Behavioral Sciences Center
- Program Review Evaluation Committee (Provost Office)
- University Scholars Selection Committee (Office of Vice-Chancellor for Research)
Robles, Tasha:
- LAS General Education Review Committee
- Campus Council on Academic Professionals (CAP)
- Campus Diversity & Social Justice Education Committee
Tolliver, Joyce:
- Senate Committee on University Statutes and Senate Procedures
- University of Illinois System Sexual Misconduct Policies Implementation Task Force
- Humanities Council Committee (representing Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies)
- SLCL EO’s advisory group (representing Program in Translation and Interpreting Studies)
VI. Administrative Positions
- Delgado, Elena – Director, SLCL
- Goldman, Dara – Director, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
- Karam, John – Director, Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies
- Tolliver, Joyce –– Director, Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies