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 of this competitive award. The Summer Faculty Research Fellowship is designed to assist faculty...
- 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: retando la historia de la modernidad en la Amazonía Peruana" Almike Vázquez-Lozares (PhD...
- 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 (https://lemann.illinois.edu/). Parabéns John!
- 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 Dominican University in Chicago. Juan Suárez Ontaneda has accepted a tenure-track position as...
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 Study Abroad Program in Barcelona, Spain. She graduated from Illinois last May 2019. To...- 2020-03-03 - Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded a competitive Campus Research Board Award for her book project: Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Culture in the Era of Climate Change. As an additional indicator of the book's relevance and promise, as well as a sign of its special distinction, her project has also been designated as an Arnold O. Beckman Research Award...
- Teresa Greppi recipient of highly competitive 2020 Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award2020-02-26 - Our very own Teresa Greppi has been selected by the Provost's Office as one of only 5 campus wide Teaching Assistant recipients of the 2020 Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Only the most outstanding graduate teaching assistants who have shown a sustained excellence in undergraduate teaching and who have had an overall positive impact on...
- 2020-02-14 - Our own Javier Irigoyen-García has been selected as an inaugural LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar. This highly selective award from the College of LAS is for those faculty members being considered for promotion from Associate to Full Professor who the LAS Executive Committee determines as having demonstrated an outstanding record in the...
- 2020-02-07 - The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) has awarded Florencia Henshaw their Conference Attendee Travel Stipend award to attend the AATSP 2020 Annual Conference in Puerto Rico. This is a highly selective travel award. Florencia will be sharing her expertise through her two scheduled presentations: "Teaching Spelling to Heritage Learners: Why,...
- 2020-02-05 - Teresa Greppi and Cristina Mostacero Pinilla have been recognized with the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants. This prestigious teaching award recognizes the most outstanding graduate teaching assistants in the College who have shown a sustained excellence in undergraduate teaching and who have had an...
- 2019-12-22 - Congratulations to Professors Carolyn Fornoff and Vincent Cervantes for receiving Humanities Release Time Awards for AY 2020-21. Nicely done Carolyn and Vincent!
- 2019-12-22 - Two faculty members have been recognized at the National Level by the MLA by winning their elections: Carolyn Fornoff has been elected to serve as MLA Forum Delegate for the Mexican LLC from 2020-2023. Dara Goldman has been re-elected as MLA Forum Delegate for another term representing the Cuban LLC. Congrats Dara and Carolyn!!!
- 2019-12-04 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez has been named the recipient of the 2019 LEAP Award (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors). The competitive LEAP 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 early in their career...