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...
- 2022-02-03 - The recipients of this year's Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Student Teaching Award are Carmen Gallegos (Literatures and Cultures) and Katie VanDyne (Linguistics). The award recognizes teaching excellence in our department and is given to one student in Literatures & Cultures and one student in Linguistics each year. In addition to the well-deserved recognition, the...
2022-02-01 - Prof. Xiomara Cervántes-Gómez has been interviewed for a new column in The Writer on “broadening the bookshelves” in the interest of “expanding our notion of craft outside the white Western canon, from the books we read to the prompts we practice.” For the...
2021-11-22 - It is a pleasure to announce that Dr. Florencia Henshaw has received yet another ACTFL award, the ACTFL/Cengage/IALLT Postsecondary Award for Excellence in World Language Instruction Using Technology. It is a national award given to only one college-level instructor per year, a remarkable achievement by Florencia. You can read more about the award...- 2021-11-11 - Our student, senior Olivia Luca (double major in Spanish and Psychology) has received a $2,000 Research Support Grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research. The grant will support her project Correlating Acculturation with Bilingualism in Spanish and Romanian Speaking Communities. She will be working under the guidance of Assistant Professor ...
2021-11-11 - Our esteemed colleague Dr. Florencia Henshaw has been elected president of the Downstate IL Chapter of the AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese). Likewise, our PhD student Sara Saez-Fajardo was elected to the position of Communications/PD Coordinator. Both received 100% of the votes! Their terms...- 2021-11-07 - Our Prof. Xiomara Cervantes was interviewed by the Global Media Cultures Podcast. The podcast is created and curated by critical media studies Professor Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas. You can listen to this fascinating interview with Prof. Cervantes about immigration/migration from Central America and Mexico here: ...
2021-10-29 - Our own Dr. Florencia Henshaw has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Excellence in Online Language Teaching Award for Higher Education, granted by ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) and CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium). The award is meant to recognize innovation and successes in online language instruction. (...
2021-10-11 - Let's congratulate Prof. Fornoff for another outstanding achievement! The Humanities Research Institute (HRI) announced the inaugural Interseminars project, entitled "Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas," and led by our own Prof. Carolyn Fornoff in conjunction with Prof. Josue David Cisneros of the...
2021-06-14 - Our alumna Grace Maloney, will be heading to Vigo in Galicia, Spain, as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. Grace graduated in May with a triple major in Spanish, MCB and Chemistry. She was a member of the Campus Honors Program and a James Scholar, and experienced a summer studying abroad in Chile. She was one of our outstanding majors! Congrats Grace! For more about Grace's...
2021-05-28 - Prof. Silvina Montrul has been awarded the highly competitive National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) fellowship for her project, “Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers.” Silvina is the main principal investigator but she is working in this project with two co-PIs: David...- 2021-05-14 - Our undergraduate Spanish major Rich Moraga completed an Honors Thesis under the supervision of Prof. Jill Jegerski and with Prof. Ann Abbott as second reader. His thesis is titled: "Análisis de algunos efectos de la barrera del idioma español en la calidad de la atención medica en los Estados Unidos" / "An Analysis of Some of the Effects of the Spanish Language Barrier on...
2021-05-14 - LAS has named the recipients of the prestigious Bronze Tablet award and several are our majors and minors! (Please note that other colleges have not yet released the names of their bronze Tablet winners so more of our students may be on those lists) The following Spanish majors have been awarded LAS Bronze Tablets: Taylor Nicole Kassis and Ashley Serna...