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."
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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!
- 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,...