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”.
- 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.