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...
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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!)....- 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...
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 ...- 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...
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. ...
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...
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...
2020-08-04 - Mark your calendar!!! An event not to miss, tailored to our Spanish and Portuguese graduate students! This workshop is geared towards students who will be on the job market this year or are interested in learning more about the hiring process. This introduction to the market will...- 2020-07-14 - Our amazing Spanish undergraduate advisor, Tasha Robles , has been elected to the Council of Academic Professionals (CAP). The Council of Academic Professionals is an elected assembly serving the interests of full-time, part-time, and retired academic professionals...
- 2020-07-12 - The 51st meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place April 29-May 1, 2021. Mark your calendars and join in!!!! For more details you can visit the official Symposium webpage...