2020-05-19
- Two of our PhD students, Ane Icardo Isasa and Teresa Greppi, have been recognized by the Illinois News Bureau for their campus-level teaching awards this year. You can read about them here.
Great job Ane and Teresa!
2020-05-18 - We are thrilled to announce that PhD student Eider Etxebarria-Zuluaga (Spanish Linguistics) has been awarded the prestigious NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award (DDRI) for her Dissertation Research: “Subject Expression in Spanish in Contact with Basque and in Spanish-Basque Bilingualism.” Eider is working under the direction of...
2020-05-18 - These YouTube Videos will give you a sense for the University of Illinois and the Champaign-Urbana micro-urban region.
2020-05-18 - As the academic year 2019-20 comes to a close, Professor Mariselle Meléndez, Head of Spanish and Portuguese, created a video presentation to honor everyone's efforts (faculty and staff, graduate and undergraduate students) and to recognize their (our) accomplishments albeit in a virtual way. We always celebrate physically in our Annual Awards Ceremony but this...
2020-05-15 - Our world-class researcher Professor Silvina Montrul has been awarded a highly prestigious and extremely competitive National Institute of Health, NICHD (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Grant for her project Validating New...
2020-05-15 - Our graduate student in Literatures and Cultures Mónica Lugo (PhD Spanish) has accepted a position as Spanish Instructor at Eastern Illinois University, starting this August 2020. Congratulations Mónica!!!! We are very proud of you!
2020-05-09 - Wonderful news for Spanish and Portuguese: Provost Andreas Cangellaris has recommended to Chancellor Robert Jones the promotion of Professor Irigoyen to Full Professor effective August 16, 2020. ¡¡¡Enhorabuena, Javier!!! Well deserved!
2020-05-08 - Professor Eduardo Ledesma has been awarded a Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Senior Fellowship for the years 2020-22, for his project, Blind Cinema: Visually Impaired Filmmakers and the Somatic Sensorium. This is a competitive fellowship given on the intellectual significance of the research project, including its theoretical and...
2020-04-29 - The Darlene Wolf Fellowship was established by an alumna of our department, Darlene Wolf, who earned her PhD in Spanish (SLATE) and specialized in second language reading research. This fellowship recognizes outstanding teaching and academic achievement by doctoral students in the Spanish Department with a graduate concentration in SLATE (Program for Second Language Acquisition...- 2020-04-28 - LAS news has announced our own Javier Irigoyen-García as one of the College of LAS named scholars for his outstanding contribution in the area of research. Javier is one of the three faculty members chosen this year for the inaugural 2020-2021 Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholars. You can read the article...
- 2020-04-25 - Despite a tough market and COVID-19, so far three of our graduate students have received TT Assistant Professor positions from prestigious universities, please congratulate them when you see them! Juan Suárez Ontaneda. Assistant Professor. Department of Classics and Foreign Languages. Xavier University Cristina Mostacero Pinilla. Assistant Professor. Department of Modern Foreign Languages....
2020-04-25 - In early March, Professor Eduardo Ledesma and a delegation from the University of Illinois affiliated with the IPRH's Public Humanities Steering Committee were on Capitol Hill to advocate for critical humanities funding (NEH, Title VI, National Archives), to be included in the next Budget Appropriation Bill. The delegation also included Prof. Jon Ebel (Religion), Prof....
2020-04-25 - Despite the challenging times we are currently confronting, there are still some wonderful news to share about our alumni and undergraduate students and their achievements. LAS Insider, an online blog for prospective students which covers the sciences, humanities, and social sciences showcased three of our...
2020-04-25 - Heather Ana Hathaway Miranda, a 1995 Spanish alumna, has been selected as Director of the LAS Alumni Board Association. The Association was founded in 1984 as a member-supported organization who works as ambassadors for the College of LAS. The Association also engages in many activities geared to LAS alumni so they can continue to be involved with their...
2020-04-25 - Ander Beristain Murillo (PhD Spanish Linguistics) and Maria Arruti Iparraguirre (PhD Spanish Lit-Cult), have been awarded the Department's Timothy J Rogers Memorial Summer Fellowship. This new 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...