2024-10-16 - On September 10, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences celebrated the investiture of Silvina Montrul as Marjorie Roberts Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences. The Marjorie Roberts Professorship in Liberal Arts & Sciences recognizes academic excellence along with community and inclusivity. It was established after...

2024-10-11 - Congratulations to graduate student Jaylene Canales, who has been awarded the Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics Committee (CEDL) Travel Grant to attend the upcoming 2025 Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting. These travel grants are supported by the Dennis R. and Carol Guagliardo Preston Fund for Diversity in...

2024-10-11 - Congratulations to graduate student Sara Castró Cantú, who has been awarded the Elizabeth Pine Dayton Award, which is a travel award intended to enable graduate students pursuing topics in sociolinguistics to attend the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting. Sara's research examines the sociolinguistics of...

2024-09-16 - Prof. Mónica García Blizzard is the recipient of a 2024 International Latino Book Award Honorable Mention for her book, The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age. Congratulations, Mónica!

2024-09-16 - Prof. Mariselle Meléndez has been featured in a number of venues across campus, including an LAS story showcasing faculty in Humanities  (https://las.illinois.edu/news/2024-08-26/summers-study). It has made big headlines around the campus, appearing not...

2024-09-16 - Senior Academic Advisor, Brady Hughes, was featured in the most recent LAS Dean's newsletter in a staff spotlight piece that showcases not only his work with Spanish majors and minors but also his recent MA in musicology and his ongoing research toward his PhD in musicology on Spanish theater: ...

2024-09-07 - Assistant Director of Introductory Spanish Michelle Dutton was awarded 2024 SLCL Summer Fellowship for Specialized Faculty, for her project, “Why do Midwestern university students study Spanish?: A qualitative study exploring Ideal L2 Selves, Rooted L2 Selves, and Investment." Director of Introductory...

2024-09-07 - Director of Undergraduate Studies Ann Abbott was selected by the University of Illinois System for the 2024-25 cohort of OpEd/Public Voices Fellowship! It will provide her and 19 other faculty members from all three U of I System universities with an opportunity to work with professional journalists...

2024-08-27 - Congratulations to graduate student Jonathan Pye, who has won the Helmut Esau Award for best graduate student paper at the recent conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) for his paper, entitled "British Latino: Investigating discourse-stylistic variables and the construction of persona within...

2024-07-21 - Congratulations to Prof. Salvatore Callesano, who has been awarded a Health Disparities Research LRP from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). His project is titled "Investigating the Relationship between Dialect Variation and the Social Determinants...

2024-07-21 - Congratulations to graduate student Lázaro García Angulo, who has been awarded the 2024 Marianne A. Ferber Award by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies for his dissertation project, "'Otra mujer-hombre': Representations of Gender Non-Conformity in Spain,...

2024-06-04 - The College of LAS has featured a news story on SPAN 232 in honor of the course's 20th anniversary. Prof. Ann Abbott created the community-based learning course, "Spanish in the Community," in 2004, the university's first and only general...

2024-06-04 - Prof. Salvatore Callesano has been recognized as an LAS LEAP (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors) Scholar for outstanding contributions and potential in research and teaching. The LEAP Award is granted to faculty early in their career based on scholarly productivity...

2024-04-29 - Congratulations to graduate students Sara Castro Cantú and Lázaro García-Angulo have been awarded a Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Students Teaching Awards for the 2023-2024 academic year! This award is based on the breadth of teaching experience...

2024-04-26 - Congratulations to graduate student Ciao Albernaz Siqueira, who has been awarded the 2023-2024 Alvaro Monserrat Llardén Scholarship in Catalan Studies!