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”.
- 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...