2026-05-06
- Prof. Salvatore Callesano has been awarded $19,349 in funds from the inaugural Curiosity to Impact Fund (C2I) by the College of LAS, to develop a general education US Minority Cultures course tentatively titled “The Social Lives of Bilingualism”. Congratulations, Sal!
2026-05-06 - Prof. Ann Abbott has been awarded a 2026 SLCL Summer Fellowship for Specialized Faculty, for her project, “Near-Native: An Autoethnographic Book Manuscript about Languages and Cultures.” The fellowship consists of $3,000 in research funds to support research and writing. Congratulations, Ann!
2026-05-06 - Dr. Kara Yarrington, Director of Introductory Spanish, has been selected to receive an award in the amount of $225,000 through the IMMERSE Essentials Funding Program for the 2026–2027 academic year. This will fund 750 licenses for AY26-27 so that students in Introductory Spanish courses can use the software free of charge. For...
2026-03-04 - Dr. Kara Yarrington and Dr. Michelle Dutton have been awarded as Equity Champion Instructors by the Office of the Provost for “their dedication, innovative approaches and unwavering commitment to enhancing the student experience [which] were pivotal in the...
2026-02-15 - Graduate student Gerson Morales has been awarded a 2026-2027 Humanities Research Institute Graduate Fellowship for his dissertation project, "From Erasure to Memory: Cultural Representations of War, Indigeneity and...
2026-01-12 - Miguel Ángel Galindo (MA, ’91, Spanish; PhD, ’97, Spanish) and Nerea Muguerza (MA, ’98, Spanish), longtime resident directors of the Illinois in Granada program in Granada, Spain, recently returned to the University of Illinois for their first visit in a decade. Learn more...
2025-09-11 - Congratulations to Prof. Eduardo Ledesma on his recent promotion to Full Professor and to Ann Abbott, who is now a Teaching Associate Professor following 13 years as Director of Undergraduate Studies. Eduardo and Ann were recognized by the College of...
2025-07-04 - Professor Mariselle Mélendez has been named by LAS Dean’s Office a Frances O’Donnell Endowed Faculty Scholar from 2025-2028. As the award letter states, it is “based upon recognition of her outstanding contribution to the college’s educational mission including research, teaching, service, and diversity and inclusion.”...
2025-05-14 - Graduate student Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka has been awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year for her dissertation project “Acquisition of Spanish Stress by English Speakers”. This is a very competitive campus wide fellowship and it is a achievement to be celebrated...
2025-05-14 - Professor Silvina Montrul has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright award to conduct research in Brazil. Congratulations, Silvina!
2025-05-03 - Professor Salvatore Callesano, along with co-Principal Investigators Jonathan Dunn (Linguistics) and Zsuzsanna Fagyal (French and Italian), has received a seed grant for their project Computational Sociolinguistics and the Impacts of Language Models through the ...
2025-05-03 - Congratulations to graduate students Karen Pasetto Olevar and Edwin Rodriguez Muñoz who have been awarded Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowships for Summer 2025 for their research projects in Argentina and Colombia. Karen's research is part of her...
2025-04-18 - Graduate student Araceli Pantoja has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the SLCL Xiaohui Zhang Diversity & Community Engagement Award in recognition of her research and community efforts in advancing first-generation students...
2025-04-15 - Graduate student Sara Castro-Cantú has received the LAS Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants Award. This is a college-wide competitive teaching award and is testament to Sara's excellence in teaching and pedagogy. Congratulations, Sara!
2025-04-15 - Prof. Anna Torres-Cacoullos has been awarded the 2025 Humanities Research Institute faculty research prize for her article “...