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...
2020-04-23 - Dear admitted students and parents: Although visits to campus aren't possible right now, we would still be delighted to meet you! Just send an email to Ann Abbott, Director of Undergraduate Studies, at arabbott@illinois.edu. We can make an appointment to speak on the phone, Skype, Zoom or whatever works best for you. You can find a lot of information about...
2020-04-14 - Two of our graduate students have received competitive Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies to conduct research in Latin America: Lorena Fabiana Alarcón for her project Identity and Language in Andean Spanish in Juyjuy, Argentina Flávia Batista da Silva for...
2020-04-11 - Associate Professor Eduardo Ledesma received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities for faculty research. The Honorable Mention was awarded for his article, “Staging the Spanish Civil War: History and Re-enactment in Joris Ivens’ The Spanish Earth (1937).” The IPRH Prize recognizes...
2020-04-11 - Megan Gargiulo (PhD Spanish) has been awarded the coveted IPRH Prize for Best Graduate Student Research for her essay “Debility and Domination in Recogimientos de mujeres in Late Colonial Mexico”. The essay is based on her dissertation which she is completing under the guidance of her advisor Prof. Mariselle Meléndez. This is a highly competitive prize that recognizes...
2020-04-04 - Professor Cervantes, under his artistic name Vicente de Cervantes, will be debuting his new performance titled Hay muertos que no hacen ruido on April 16th at 8pm CST. Due to the our current isolated situations, Prof. Cervantes will be debuting this performance as a “virtual performance” with a live stream to both Facebook and YouTube. As a...