2020-04-25
- Despite the challenging times we are currently confronting, there are still some wonderful news to share about our alumni and undergraduate students and their achievements.
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2020-04-25 - Heather Ana Hathaway Miranda, a 1995 Spanish alumna, has been selected as Director of the LAS Alumni Board Association. The Association was founded in 1984 as a member-supported organization who works as ambassadors for the College of LAS. The Association also...
2020-04-25 - Ander Beristain Murillo (PhD Spanish Linguistics) and Maria Arruti Iparraguirre (PhD Spanish Lit-Cult), have been awarded the Department's Timothy J Rogers Memorial Summer Fellowship. This new fellowship comes from a generous donation from Elizabeth Rogers to support graduate...
2020-04-23 - Dear admitted students and parents: Although visits to campus aren't possible right now, we would still be delighted to meet you! Just send an email to Ann Abbott, Director of Undergraduate Studies, at arabbott@illinois.edu. We can make an appointment to speak on...
2020-04-14 - Two of our graduate students have received competitive Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies to conduct research in Latin America: Lorena Fabiana Alarcón for her project Identity and Language...
2020-04-11 - Associate Professor Eduardo Ledesma received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities for faculty research. The Honorable Mention was awarded for his article, “Staging the Spanish Civil War: History and Re-enactment in...
2020-04-11 - Megan Gargiulo (PhD Spanish) has been awarded the coveted IPRH Prize for Best Graduate Student Research for her essay “Debility and Domination in Recogimientos de mujeres in Late Colonial Mexico”. The essay is based on her dissertation which she is completing under the...
2020-04-04 - Professor Cervantes, under his artistic name Vicente de Cervantes, will be debuting his new performance titled Hay muertos que no hacen ruido on April 16th at 8pm CST. Due to the our current isolated situations, Prof. Cervantes will be debuting...- 2020-04-03 - Assistant Professor Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded an inaugural Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Summer Faculty Research Fellowship to work on her book Subjunctive Aesthetics. Prof. Fornoff is one of only two faculty fellows chosen this first year...
- 2020-04-03 - The Best Graduate Student Paper Awards are awarded yearly, one in Literatures and Cultures and one in Hispanic Linguistics. This year's winners of the Best Graduate Student Paper awards are: Carmen Gallegos (PhD Spanish) Literatures and Cultures for her paper "Líderes indígenas en la prensa:...
- 2020-03-31 - Associate Professor John Karam has been appointed Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies for a five-year term beginning August 16, 2020 and continuing until August 15, 2025. He will still be teaching in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as he directs the Center (...
- 2020-03-31 - PhD Student in Spanish Jone Vicente Urrutia has been awarded a highly competitive SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2020-21. The award is given in recognition of exceptional academic achievement as well as a timely progress towards the degree. ¡Enhorabuena Jone!
- 2020-03-25 - Two of our outstading graduate students Flávia Batista da Silva (MA Portuguese) and Carmen Gallegos (PhD Spanish) have been awarded prestigious Lemann Graduate Fellowships for AY 2020-21 for their research related to Brazil. Parabéns Flávia e Carmen!
- 2020-03-12 - Two of our stellar graduate students in Spanish have accepted tenure-track Assistant Professor positions, one in Linguistics and one in Literatures and Cultures. Cristina Mostacero Pinilla has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at...
2020-03-11 - One of our department's former double majors and recent alumna, Phoebe Lauer, who majored in Spanish and Psychology, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to work as an English Teaching Assistant Fulbright in the Canary Islands, Spain. While she was our student, Phoebe attended our...