2022-03-15
- Miren Antón Lobato, a doctoral candidate in literature and culture, has been awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by the School for Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics. During the fellowship, she will be finishing her doctoral dissertation, "Queer Heterotopias: Online and Offline Communities and Civic Crisis in Chile and Spain."
- 2022-03-15 - Nominated by students, award recipients are selected by the Illinois Student Government. As stated by ISG, “The Illinois Student Government's Teaching Excellence Awards are an opportunity for students to recognize and thank excellent instructors at the University of Illinois for their hard work and commitment to the University's mission. Without the support and dedication from our...
- 2022-03-08 - In addition to Prof. Florencia Henshaw's recent accolades, she has been named the recipient of the very prestigious Chacellor's Academic Professional Excellence Award (CAPE). This award is given for excellence among Academic Professionals. Nominees are judged...
- 2022-03-02 - This is the major campus award for excellence in undergraduate teaching in the entire campus, a well-deserved honor on the heels of also being named recipient of the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff. These accolades attest to and recognizes Prof. Castro Goebel's’ outstanding trajectory as one of the finest instructors on campus.
- 2022-03-02 - Prof. Florencia Henshaw has been named as the recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Online & Distance Teaching. This is the principal campus award for excellence in online teaching, a well-deserved award...
- 2022-02-10 - Prof. Raquel Castro Goebel has been chosen by the LAS Awards Committee as the recipient of the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff. Only one award is given in this category. This award is given to Specialized Faculty in the College for their sustained excellence in undergraduate teaching, positive impact on undergraduate student learning and innovative...
- 2022-02-10 - Carmen Gallegos has been recognized with the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants. This is a one of the most competitive awards given to the most outstanding graduate teaching assistants in the College of LAS who have shown a sustained excellence in undergraduate teaching and who have had an overall positive impact on undergraduate student...
- 2022-02-03 - The recipients of this year's Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Student Teaching Award are Carmen Gallegos (Literatures and Cultures) and Katie VanDyne (Linguistics). The award recognizes teaching excellence in our department and is given to one student in Literatures & Cultures and one student in Linguistics each year. In addition to the well-deserved recognition, the...
2022-02-01 - Prof. Xiomara Cervántes-Gómez has been interviewed for a new column in The Writer on “broadening the bookshelves” in the interest of “expanding our notion of craft outside the white Western canon, from the books we read to the prompts we practice.” For the...
2021-11-22 - It is a pleasure to announce that Dr. Florencia Henshaw has received yet another ACTFL award, the ACTFL/Cengage/IALLT Postsecondary Award for Excellence in World Language Instruction Using Technology. It is a national award given to only one college-level instructor per year, a remarkable achievement by Florencia. You can read more about the award...- 2021-11-11 - Our student, senior Olivia Luca (double major in Spanish and Psychology) has received a $2,000 Research Support Grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research. The grant will support her project Correlating Acculturation with Bilingualism in Spanish and Romanian Speaking Communities. She will be working under the guidance of Assistant Professor ...
2021-11-11 - Our esteemed colleague Dr. Florencia Henshaw has been elected president of the Downstate IL Chapter of the AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese). Likewise, our PhD student Sara Saez-Fajardo was elected to the position of Communications/PD Coordinator. Both received 100% of the votes! Their terms...- 2021-11-07 - Our Prof. Xiomara Cervantes was interviewed by the Global Media Cultures Podcast. The podcast is created and curated by critical media studies Professor Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas. You can listen to this fascinating interview with Prof. Cervantes about immigration/migration from Central America and Mexico here: ...
2021-10-29 - Our own Dr. Florencia Henshaw has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Excellence in Online Language Teaching Award for Higher Education, granted by ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) and CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium). The award is meant to recognize innovation and successes in online language instruction. (...
2021-10-11 - Let's congratulate Prof. Fornoff for another outstanding achievement! The Humanities Research Institute (HRI) announced the inaugural Interseminars project, entitled "Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas," and led by our own Prof. Carolyn Fornoff in conjunction with Prof. Josue David Cisneros of the...