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”.
- 2023-04-25 - Prof. Silvina Montrul has received a Lemann Faculty Research Grant for AY23-24 for her project “The Impact of Schooling on the Acquisition of “Little Words” in Brazilian Portuguese”, for a collaborative project with Tania Ionin (Linguistics) and Ellaine Grolla (University of Sao Paulo).
- 2023-04-21 - Gisabel Leonardo has been selected as a Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Graduate Student Fellow for 2023-2024
- 2023-04-21 - Katie VanDyne has received the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants
- 2023-04-20 - Prof. Anna Torres-Cacoullos has been selected as just one of seven faculty to receive a 2023-2024 Humanities Research Institute Faculty Fellowship, for her project, titled "Modernist Cine-grafies: Writing with Motion Pictures, Reading with Moving Images in Spain (1918–1930)”.
- 2023-04-20 - Prof. Jill Jegerski is the recipient of an LAS COVID-19 Revitalization Fellowship for AY23-24. The fellowship will provide Jill with a course release and RA funds to support ongoing eye-tracking research projects.
- 2023-04-20 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez was recently quoted in an ABC News article about the terms "Latino/Latinx/Latine", which you can read here: ...
- 2023-04-20 - Sergio Mora Moreno has won a competitive Whitten Fellowship. The title of his awarded project is “Towards the construction of a corpus of trans textualities in Colombia: an exploratory study”.
- 2023-04-20 - Gerson Morales Pérez has won a competitive Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowship, Tinker Foundation. The title of his awarded project is "Performing culture from the shadows of the...
- 2023-04-20 - Sara Castro Cantú has won a competitive Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowship, through CLACS. The title of her awarded project is “Using the Theory of Ecology of Pressures to Understand Language Shift in Mexican Indigenous Communities".
- 2023-04-20 - Prof. Mariselle Meléndez is one of just two recipients campuswide of the 2023 Campus Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award. The award is highly competitive and requires a two-stage process and four letters of recommendation from different stakeholders. The award is a testament to Mariselle’s skillful leadership and vision and we are fortunate to have her representing not just our...
- 2023-04-20 - Lorena Alarcón has won a Tinker Summer Fellowship, through CLACS. The title of her awarded project is “Spanish and Indigenous Language Assessment in Andean Jujuy, Argentina”.