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Professor Jill Jegerski has been awarded the Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar award beginning in AY 2020-2021 and continuing through 2024-2025. The Conrad awards are designed to recognize tenured faculty members in LAS who are...

Professor Silvina Montrul has published yet another book, adding to a lengthy list of top-notch publications. Dr. Montrul's most recent book, Acquisition of Differential Object Marking, was co-edited with Dr. Alexandru Mardale and has been...

Several of our amazing recent graduates and current students in Spanish and Portuguese have received highly prestigious awards Three of our students received Fulbright Awards: Alicia Barbas: In May, Alicia earned a bachelor’s...

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!    

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...

These YouTube Videos will give you a sense for the University of Illinois and the Champaign-Urbana micro-urban region.                  

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...

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...

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!

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!