2021-06-14
- 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 member of the Campus Honors Program and a James Scholar, and experienced a summer studying abroad in Chile. She was one of our outstanding majors! Congrats Grace!
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2021-05-28 - Prof. Silvina Montrul has been awarded the highly competitive National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) fellowship for her project, “Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers.” Silvina is the main principal investigator but she is working in this project with two co-PIs: David...- 2021-05-14 - 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: "Análisis de algunos efectos de la barrera del idioma español en la calidad de la atención medica en los Estados Unidos" / "An Analysis of Some of the Effects of the Spanish Language Barrier on...
2021-05-14 - 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 bronze Tablet winners so more of our students may be on those lists) The following Spanish majors have been awarded LAS Bronze Tablets: Taylor Nicole Kassis and Ashley Serna...- 2021-05-13 - 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 of excellence in teaching and research, as well as for evidence of service and future potential. More information in this LAS news article: https://las.illinois.edu/news/2021-05-12/...
- 2021-05-13 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes has won the Latin American Studies Association 2021 Premio Sylvia Molloy for Best Article in the Humanities (presented by the Sexualities Studies Section) for her article “Paz’s Pasivo: Thinking Mexicanness from the Bottom.” The Latin American Studies Association is the largest professional association in the world for the study...
- 2021-05-12 - Lit/cult PhD candidate Carmen Gallegos has been awarded a highly competitive Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for AY 2021-2022. This award will allow Carmen to complete her dissertation project “Quantifying Amazonia: Ecocritical fictions during and beyond the rubber boom in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil (19th - 21st centuries),” which she...
- 2021-05-12 - 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 rank of Full Professor, effective August 16, 2021. As stated in Provost Communication 9, the final recommendation on promotion and tenure is made by the Provost, acting...
2021-05-05 - 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 and administered by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. The fellowship allows exceptional junior faculty to pursue...
2021-05-04 - Professor Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded the 2021 LEAP (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors) Award. This highly competitive award was created as a way to foster excellence and recognize the impact assistant professors have in the College of LAS. It is granted to faculty...- 2021-04-29 - Our very own Ann Abbott has been the recipient of the inaugural 2021 Xiaohui Zhang Diversity and Community Engagement Award! This award, which is open to both faculty and students, recognizes an SLCL member who has contributed to the School's mission of promoting a diverse, inclusive, and engaged academic community, and who has facilitated...
- 2021-04-26 - PhD candidate Carmen Gallegos has been awarded a Whitten Fellowship from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies for her project “Postcards in the Marketplace: 19th and 20th centuries Amazon Imagery in a Contemporary Digital Archive,” to be conducted in summer 2021....
- 2021-04-23 - Spanish PhD students Jone Vicente Urrutia (Lit/Cult) and Ander Beristain Murillo (Linguistics) have been selected for the Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Teaching Award. The Department of Spanish and Portuguese grants two awards ($250 each) to two Graduate Teaching Assistants, one in the area of linguistics and one in the area of literary and...
2021-04-22 - The Graduate College has awarded our PhD candidate Irati Hurtado Ruiz a Dissertation Travel Grant to conduct research in Spain during Fall 2021. This Graduate College Travel Grant is a very competitive award at the campus level and we should be proud of Irati's fantastic achievement. For more information on this grant read...
2021-04-22 - Our PhD candidate Ander Beristain has been awarded an LAS Impact Award for his efforts making online learning fun and engaging during the COVID-19 pandemic. The LAS Impact Awards were created to honor those who’ve gone beyond expectations to help others during this incredibly difficult chapter in our history. You can...