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2024-03-18 - 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,...

2024-03-18 - Congratulations to graduate student Lorena Alarcón, who has won an American Association of Applied Linguistics Indigenous Language Scholarship to attend and present her paper, “Assessment of Indigenous Languages in Northern Argentina” at the 2024...

2024-02-19 - Lucía Sánchez-Gilbert has won the Campuswide Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching! This highly selective award, given to a maximum of 5 graduate teaching assistants, is awarded by the Office of the Provost. Congratulations, Lucía!   

2024-02-12 - On February 9, CLACS held a workshop and reception for recipients of summer 2023 CLACS graduate research fellowships. The Department of Spanish and Portuguese was extremely well-represented, with 5 graduate students participating and presenting on the work they did as a result of the fellowships. A copy of the full program can be found ...

2024-02-09 - Prof. Silvina Montrul's book Native Speakers, Interrupted (Cambridge UP, 2023) has been selected as the winner of this year’s Leonard...

2024-02-09 - Prof. Alejandro Ramirez Mendez  is a recipient of Humanities Release Time for AY 2024-2025 for his project, Calles migrantes: Transnational Cartographies and Global Cities in the Literary Imagination of the Americas. 

2024-02-09 - Prof. Rodrigo Delgado is a recipient of Humanities Release Time for AY 2024-2025 for his project, "Navigating the Linguistic Landscape: Language Mixing and Latinx Identity in the Digital Age."   

2024-02-09 -  Lucía Sánchez-Gilbert is a recipient of the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants. She is one of just six recipients College-wide for this award.  Read the LAS news story here.

2024-02-09 - Jose Figueroa was selected as a recipient of 2024-2025 Humanities Research Institute Interseminars Fellowship. He is one of eight other graduate students from the College of Fine and Applied Arts and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  Interseminars represents the latest thinking on how best to practice a genuinely collaborative and equitable commitment to graduate training in the...

2024-02-09 - Lázaro García Angulo was selected as a recipient 2024-2025 Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Fellowship for his dissertation project, tentatively titled "“Otra mujer-hombre”: Representations of Gender Nonconformity in Spain, 1880-1940."

2024-02-09 - Luis Gaytán has received a Graduate College MA Travel Grant for his MA research project.  Eunyoung Yang has received a Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant for her dissertation. 

2024-02-05 - On the occasion of her retirement, we will come together to celebrate Prof. Elena Delgado’s 34-year career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Current and former students, colleagues, and friends will have the opportunity to share tributes during the ceremony and/or in written form in a book that will be presented to her. If you would like to speak or share a written tribute, you...

2023-10-13 - Congratulations to Luis Gaytán Soto, awarded the 2023 Graduate Student Leadership Award.

2023-10-13 - Prof. Silvina Montrul has been named a recipient of a Marjorie Roberts Professorship in Liberal Arts & Sciences. These prestigious named professorships are granted based on an outstanding record of scholarship.

2023-04-27 - Danielle Massulo Bordignon has won a competitive Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowship, through CLACS. The title of her awarded project is “Insurgent Allegory: Revising Literary Style in Authoritarian Brazil”.