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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...