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”.
- 2023-04-19 - Prof. Eduardo Ledesma has been selected the recipient of the 2023 Karen Wold Level the Learning Field Award by the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES). The Karen Wold Level the Learning Field Award was created in memory of Karen Wold, an access specialist at DRES who spent her career fully engaged with her students and their faculty members to find...
- 2022-12-02 - Brenden Carollo is one of three recipients College-wide of the LAS Academic Professional Award. The college has published a story, which includes a feature on Brenden here: https://las.illinois.edu/news/2022-11-28/las-honors-7-staff-and-academic-professionals.
- 2022-11-21 - Prof. Mariselle Meléndez has been chosen by the Office of the Provost to be a 2022-2023 Fellow in the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program. Only 5 professors from each Big Ten campus are chosen for this program, which aims to develop the leadership potential of participating faculty, with particular emphasis on enriching...
- 2022-11-21 - Florencia Henshaw has been selected as the recipient of the Excellence in Teacher Development Award, granted by the ACTFL Teacher Development Special Interest Group and announced at this year’s ACTFL conference in Boston. This prestigious national award recognizes a professional in the field of world language teacher development who demonstrates...
- 2022-10-10 - Florencia Henshaw has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Service Award in the category of Exemplary Teaching and Training, granted by the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ICTFL). This award recognizes educators whose exemplary teaching has provided inspiration to large numbers of foreign language students or teachers. This category...
- 2022-08-16 - Christian Carreto Cardona (Portuguese major) has received a FLAS for AY22-23
2022-05-23 - It is with profound sadness that we share the news of the unexpected loss of Dara Goldman, professor of Spanish and director of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society.- 2022-05-12 - PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, Sara Sáez Fajardo has been awarded the Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year for her dissertation “Validating an elicited imitation task as an equitable measure of proficiency for heritage and second language learners”, directed under the supervision of Prof. Melissa Bowles.
- 2022-05-09 - Caio Albernaz Siqueira, PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics, is awarded the 2022 Tinker Field Research Collaborative Fellowship by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, to conduct field research in South America toward his project entitled “The Realization of Occlusives in the Spanish and Portuguese of Rivera.”
- 2022-04-22 - Prof. Carolyn Fornoff's article Planetary Poetics of Extinction in Contemporary Mexican Poetry," published in Mexican Literature as World Literature (2021) has been named the recipient of the Best Article in the Humanities by LASA Mexico Section. The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest professional organization in the world for scholars and the study of...
- 2022-04-08 - Our own Deanivea Mendes Felix has been awarded a Graduate Fellowship for AY 2022-23 for her project "Under the Knife: Executive Interference and Brazil’s Human-Security State in Health Emergencies from the past 30 years" by The Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies. Congratulations!
- 2022-04-08 - We are excited to announce that the recipients of this year's prize for Best Graduate Paper are: Kacie Gastañaga, “HL, L2, and L3 Learner Processing of Written Corrective Feedback: Evidence from Think-Alouds”. Eunyoung Yang, “Techno-orientalism disguised as cosmopolitanism in Rita Indiana’s Tentacle”. As a Department we are very proud of...
- 2022-04-08 - Our graduate students Kacie Gastañaga ( Linguistics) and Lucía Sánchez (Literature and Culture) have been awarded the Timothy J. Rogers Memorial Summer Fellowship for summer 2022. This fellowship comes from a generous donation from Elizabeth Rogers to support graduate students in Spanish. The recipients were nominated by the faculty in their respective areas and were selected by the Graduate...