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2019-02-27 - Prof. Anna María Escobar has been awarded the very competitive campus award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring. This award is given to a selected number of university professors who have shown a sustained excellence in graduate student mentoring and who have had a major...

2019-02-02 - Prof. Eduardo Ledesma has been awarded an IPRH Faculty Fellowship for 2019-20 for his project “Blind Cinema: Visually Impaired Filmmakers and Technologies of Sight"

2019-01-10 - Melissa Bowles’ proposal “The Bilingual Advantage Starts at Home: Raising Awareness of the Benefits of Home Language Maintenance Among Illinois Teachers and Families” has been one of the 14 proposals awarded in the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and...

2018-12-16 -   Spanish in the Community is a course at the University that integrates the Spanish speaking skills of students and connects them with service projects in the Champaign-Urbana community. The course combines a student’s passion for learning about the Spanish language and a passion for...

2018-12-07 -   Professor William Curtis Blaylock earned his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964, where he studied with Yakov Malkiel, a legendary figure in the field of Romance Philology. His dissertation was entitled  “Studies in Possible Osco-Umbrian Influence on Hispano-...

2018-12-03 - We are very proud to announce that our alumnus, Dr....

2018-10-18 - Prof. L. Elena Delgado’s work on Spanish nationalism, the Catalan secessionist movement, the links between Spain and the US and the impact of the feminist movement on current politics has been recently showcased in the magazine CTXT.   CTXT is a journal,  “founded...

2018-09-11 - 1st prize: Juan Suárez Ontaneda ( Street musicians singing 'El Amor amor,' perhaps the oldest Vallenato song available through written records, during the inauguration of the 2018 Festival de Leyenda Vallenata at the Alfonso López Michelsen square, Valledupar, Colombia)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...