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...
2022-04-08 - Congratulations to our three faculty who were recognized in the 2022 Celebration of Teaching Excellence: José Ignacio Hualde, Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award Florencia Henshaw, Excellence in Online & Distance Teaching / Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) Award Raquel Castro Goebel, Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching- 2022-03-29 - Our own Professor Silvina Montrul has been awarded the highly competitive LAS faculty study fellowship. The LAS Program of Faculty Study in a Second Discipline offers faculty members an opportunity to extend their scholarship through study in a separate field. Awards are limited to a maximum of FOUR FTE Fellows for academic year 2022-2023. Up to TWO of the fellowships will be awarded to faculty...
- 2022-03-15 - Miren Antón Lobato, a doctoral candidate in literature and culture, has been awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by the School for Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics. During the fellowship, she will be finishing her doctoral dissertation, "Queer Heterotopias: Online and Offline Communities and Civic Crisis in Chile and Spain."
- 2022-03-15 - Nominated by students, award recipients are selected by the Illinois Student Government. As stated by ISG, “The Illinois Student Government's Teaching Excellence Awards are an opportunity for students to recognize and thank excellent instructors at the University of Illinois for their hard work and commitment to the University's mission. Without the support and dedication from our...
- 2022-03-08 - In addition to Prof. Florencia Henshaw's recent accolades, she has been named the recipient of the very prestigious Chacellor's Academic Professional Excellence Award (CAPE). This award is given for excellence among Academic Professionals. Nominees are judged...
- 2022-03-02 - This is the major campus award for excellence in undergraduate teaching in the entire campus, a well-deserved honor on the heels of also being named recipient of the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff. These accolades attest to and recognizes Prof. Castro Goebel's’ outstanding trajectory as one of the finest instructors on campus.
- 2022-03-02 - Prof. Florencia Henshaw has been named as the recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Online & Distance Teaching. This is the principal campus award for excellence in online teaching, a well-deserved award...
- 2022-02-10 - Prof. Raquel Castro Goebel has been chosen by the LAS Awards Committee as the recipient of the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff. Only one award is given in this category. This award is given to Specialized Faculty in the College for their sustained excellence in undergraduate teaching, positive impact on undergraduate student learning and innovative...
- 2022-02-10 - Carmen Gallegos has been recognized with the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants. This is a one of the most competitive awards given to the most outstanding graduate teaching assistants in the College of LAS who have shown a sustained excellence in undergraduate teaching and who have had an overall positive impact on undergraduate student...