2018-08-27
- Ann Abbott, Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, was selected to give the convocation speech at the New Student Convocation for all incoming freshmen in the State Farm Center in August.
- 2018-08-14 - Tasha Robles has recently been awarded the “University Advisor of the Year” award by the Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha. According to the national chapter's website, the University Advisor of the Year award "is presented to recognize those University Advisors that help our undergraduate chapters on campus. This advisor not only supports our Hermanas,...
2018-07-06 - Jessica Romero, major in Spanish and Portuguese (B.A. 2018), has been the recipient of the prestigious and very competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant which is devoted to the study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs. She will represent the U.S. as a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Brazil. ...- 2018-06-27 - Prof. Melissa Bowles has been named as a Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar beginning in AY 2018-2019 and continuing through 2022-2023. These awards are designed to recognize tenured faculty members in LAS who are established or emerging leaders with exceptionally strong scholarly recognition and significant promise for continued achievement. Approximately 3-5 Conrad Humanities...
- 2018-06-02 - Prof. L. Elena Delgado has been selected as a University Scholar for 2018-2019. The University Scholars Program honors and rewards the most outstanding faculty at the University of Illinois. This very competitive award is given to those professors whose leading-edge scholarship and outstanding teaching contribute to the excellence of our institution.
- 2018-05-16 - Prof. Eduardo Ledesma has been awarded the 2018 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award. As Provost Cangellaris has indicated in the official letter, the award goes to "particularly excellent cases during the promotion review process, noting those scholars whose contributions were truly exceptional." According to the Provost, Eduardo's dossier was recommended to him by the...
- 2018-04-25 - Liz Moreno Chuquen, a PhD student in the department of Spanish and Portuguese, is this year's recipient of the Douglas A. Kibbee Prize. The Douglas A. Kibbee Prize was created by colleagues, friends, and students of Professor Douglas Kibbee in honor of his distinguished career and service as the first Director of the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, and on the occasion of his...
- 2018-04-16 - Ann Abbott recently published a piece in the Chicago Tribune op-ed section. Ann offers a very insightful take on the issue of "accents" in comedy, politics and immigration as a result of the recent Jimmy Kimmel and ...
- 2018-04-13 - Emily DiFilippo has been selected as a co-winner of the prize for best graduate student research (IPRH Prizes for Resarch in the Humanities), for her article entitled “Post-Op in the Real World: Cancer and Queer Resistance in Isabel Franc and Susanna Martín’s Alicia en un mundo real (2011)”, to be published in Drawing Nearer: Comics Culture in Contemporary Spain, eds. edited by...
- 2018-04-10 - Amanda Rector has been awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant for her project "Citizenship and Belonging in the In-Between: Transatlantic Migration to Venezuela and Brazil, 1830-1914"
- 2018-03-21 - Carolyn Fornoff (PhD University of Pennsylvania) and Vincent Cervantes (PhD University of Southern California) will be joining the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as Assistant Professors in Latin American Literatures and Cultures in Fall 2018.
2018-03-05 - Amanda Rector has been awarded a Lemann Graduate Fellowship for 2018-19 for her project "Citizenship and Belonging in the In-Between: Transatlantic Migrations in Venezuela and Brazil, 1830-1914".
2018-02-19 - The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities has selected Samantha Good as an Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) for the 2018–19 academic year, one of their very competitive Graduate Student Fellowships.
2018-02-18 - The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities has awarded Juan Suárez Ontaneda one of their very competitive Graduate Student Fellowships for the AY 2018–19. Juan will be an IPRH fellow for the “Race Work” year.
2018-01-09 - Prof. Melissa Bowles has been awarded an Arnold O. Beckman Award, which is given to projects that show special distinction and promise, for her research project on "Instructed Heritage Language Acquisition".