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!
- 2024-04-26 - Congratulations to graduate students Jonathan Pye and Sergio Moreno, who have been awarded the Timothy J. Rogers Memorial Summer Fellowship for summer 2024! This fellowship comes from a generous donation from Elizabeth Rogers to support graduate students in...
- 2024-04-12 - Congratulations to graduate student Daniel Pérez-Astros, who has been awarded one of just three Whitten Fellowships given by CLACS this year for his project "Nostalgic Testimonies: Post-dictatorship and Trauma in Brazil and Venezuela"!...
- 2024-04-04 - Congratulations to graduate student Ilaria Strocchia, who has been awarded a Tinker Foundation Research Fellowship to conduct archival research in Mexico City related to her dissertation project, entitled “Rethinking the Urban as a Space of Liquid Modernity: The Case of...
- 2024-03-21 - It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Prof. Elena Delgado passed away peacefully at her home on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, surrounded by her family after battling brain cancer. Elena enjoyed a long and distinguished 34-year career at the University of Illinois, joining the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in 1989, where she was a faculty member until her retirement in December...
- 2024-03-19 - Congratulations to Prof. Silvina Montrul on the publication of her new co-edited volume, The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and...
- Luis David Gaytán-Soto, recipient of the 2024 Xiaohui Zhang Diversity and Community Engagement Award2024-03-18 - Congratulations to graduate student Luis David Gaytán-Soto, who has won the 2024 Xiaohui Zhang Diversity and Community Engagement Award from the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. The award is given to a graduate student,...
- 2024-03-18 - Congratulations to graduate student Lorena Alarcón, who has won an American Association of Applied Linguistics Indigenous Language Scholarship to attend and present her paper, “Assessment of Indigenous Languages in Northern Argentina” at the 2024...
- 2024-02-19 - Lucía Sánchez-Gilbert has won the Campuswide Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching! This highly selective award, given to a maximum of 5 graduate teaching assistants, is awarded by the Office of the Provost. Congratulations, Lucía!
- 2024-02-12 - On February 9, CLACS held a workshop and reception for recipients of summer 2023 CLACS graduate research fellowships. The Department of Spanish and Portuguese was extremely well-represented, with 5 graduate students participating and presenting on the work they did as a result of the fellowships. A copy of the full program can be found ...
- 2024-02-09 - Prof. Silvina Montrul's book Native Speakers, Interrupted (Cambridge UP, 2023) has been selected as the winner of this year’s Leonard...
- 2024-02-09 - Prof. Alejandro Ramirez Mendez is a recipient of Humanities Release Time for AY 2024-2025 for his project, Calles migrantes: Transnational Cartographies and Global Cities in the Literary Imagination of the Americas.
- 2024-02-09 - Prof. Rodrigo Delgado is a recipient of Humanities Release Time for AY 2024-2025 for his project, "Navigating the Linguistic Landscape: Language Mixing and Latinx Identity in the Digital Age."
- 2024-02-09 - Lucía Sánchez-Gilbert is a recipient of the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants. She is one of just six recipients College-wide for this award. Read the LAS news story here.