11/22/2021 - 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...
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11/11/2021 - Our esteemed colleague Dr. Florencia Henshaw has been elected president of the Downstate IL Chapter of the AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish...
11/11/2021 - 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...
11/07/2021 - 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...
10/29/2021 - 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...
10/11/2021 - Let's congratulate Prof. Fornoff for another outstanding achievement! The Humanities Research Institute (HRI) announced the inaugural Interseminars project, entitled "...
06/14/2021 - Our alumna Grace Maloney, will be heading to Vigo in Galicia, Spain, as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. Grace graduated in May with a triple major in Spanish, MCB and Chemistry. She was a...
05/28/2021 - Prof. Silvina Montrul has been awarded the highly competitive National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) fellowship for her project, “Analyzing and Visualizing...
05/14/2021 - Our undergraduate Spanish major Rich Moraga completed an Honors Thesis under the supervision of Prof. Jill Jegerski and with Prof. Ann Abbott as second reader. His thesis is titled...
05/14/2021 - LAS has named the recipients of the prestigious Bronze Tablet award and several are our majors and minors! (Please note that other colleges have not yet released the names of their...
05/13/2021 - Prof. Mariselle Meléndez has just been named LAS Alumni Distinguished Professorial Scholar by the College of LAS. Named scholars are chosen for their energy, creativity, and record...
05/13/2021 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes has won the Latin American Studies Association 2021 Premio Sylvia Molloy for Best Article in the Humanities (presented by the Sexualities...
05/12/2021 - Following the determination by the Campus Promotion and Tenure Committee, the Provost has recommended the promotions of both Melissa Bowles and John Karam to the...
05/12/2021 - Lit/cult PhD candidate Carmen Gallegos has been awarded a highly competitive Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for AY 2021-2022. This award will...
05/05/2021 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes has been awarded a six-month 2021 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty. The Fellowship is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...
