2021-04-04
- Join us in congratulating Daniel Pérez-Astros who has been awarded a competitive Lemann Graduate Fellowship for AY 2021-22 for his project "Post-dictatorship, Trauma, and Testimony in Brazil and Venezuela." ¡Felicidades Daniel!
- 2021-03-26 - Join us in congratulating Ander Beristain and Eider Etxebarria who have been awarded 2021-2022 SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships. This one-year very competitive fellowship offers students a 12-month stipend and fees’ coverage so they can devote their full time to the completion of their dissertations...
- 2021-03-25 - Prof. Salvatore Callesano has been awarded the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award. The faculty selected for this award are nominated by the students, and the winners are elected by the Illinois Student Government. As stated in his award letter, “The Illinois Student Government's Teaching Excellence Awards are an opportunity for...
- 2021-02-26 - Ander Beristain Murillo and Jone Vicente Urrutia have received the highly prestigious Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Both Ander and Jone received teaching awards at the College level and their nominations were submitted by the College to the Campus competition....
- 2021-02-25 - Our Department Head, Professor Mariselle Meléndez, has been named the first LAS Dean’s Fellow for Faculty Development. The position, which will start on January 2022, has been created to develop programs that enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion within the college, as well as to ensure that all faculty members receive effective...
- 2021-02-09 - Prof. Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded the very competitive Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Fellowship for her outstanding book project, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Culture in the Era of Climate Change. As a fellowship recipient, Carolyn will participate as Faculty Fellow in the 2021–22 Symptoms of Crisis...
- 2021-02-09 - Our PhD student Megan Gargiulo has received the highly competitive Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Fellowship for her project "Gender, and Recogimiento: Discursive Representations of Space, Sexuality, and Productivity in Late Colonial Mexico." The fellowship will enable Megan to complete her dissertation and to participate in the year’s activities,...
- 2020-12-18 - Prof. Eduardo Ledesma has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He was named along with Bobby Smith II, Professor of African American studies. Ledesma’s project “Visually Impaired Filmmakers and Technologies of Sight” has two key aims, according to the project description: first, to raise critical awareness about the work of blind filmmakers, and second, to establish...
2020-12-12 - While we hope next year's party will be in person again, Profs. Meléndez and Bowles emceed a plethora of fun and festive activities, games and Maize gift card give aways. Taboo, Pictionary and Charades were accompanied by toasts, courtesy of Prof. Meléndéz's "secret" coquito recipe (yum!). Congratulations to the winners of the best drink and ugliest holiday sweater contests! Who said Zoom could...- 2020-12-09 - The LAS Awards Committee selected our own Melanie Waters for the prestigious and highly competitive LAS Academic Professional Award. This award honors selected academic professionals for their outstanding contributions to the college. In her capacity first as Assistant Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program...
2020-12-01 - We are proud of our alumna Dr. Robin Ragan who has been nationally recognized with ACTFL's Global Engagement Initiative Award. As you can see in this video, the award is a tribute to Dr. Ragan's creation of a...- 2020-10-20 - A stellar Spanish major, Sophie Isolde Luijten, receives a prestigious Illinois International Undergraduate Achievement Award. This award recognizes an Illinois undergraduate student (U.S. citizen or international) for a significant service or contribution resulting from their participation in an international study course, program, or...
2020-10-01 - Jacopo Demarinis, one of our Spanish minors and an intern for Immigration Services of Champaign-Urbana (ISCU) during the spring 2020 semester, received the Student Leadership Award, one of the C-U Immigration Forum Welcome Awards, at their awards ceremony and celebration held on Sept. 19. Jacopo was nominated based on his work in SPAN 232 “Spanish in the Community” during the spring 2020...
2020-10-01 - One of our Spanish minors and a Latinx student, junior Alexis Perezchica is now serving as President for the Illinois Student Government. Her inspiring story was featured in Journeys, an Office of Communications collection of stories geared toward sharing the Illinois experience with prospective students. You can read it here: ...
2020-08-30 - This year's Spanish and Portuguese Fall Reception was a resounding success, and quite safe, as it was held via Zoom. Dr. Mariselle Meléndez and Dr. Melissa Bowles emceed an array of fun activities, and the new faculty and graduate students had an opportunity to introduce themselves. Although we miss seeing each other in person, everyone had a great time!!!! ...