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Ander Beristain Murillo and Maria Arruti Iparraguirre awarded Timothy J. Rogers Memorial Summer Fellowship
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...
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Notice for Newly Admitted Students and Parents
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...
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Lorena Fabiana Alarcón and Flávia Batista da Silva awarded Tinker Grants from CLACS!
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...
SCENES OF REFUSAL AND THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE
According to Jacques Rancière art, like politics, is not by nature consensual, but rather “dissensual.” This is because of art's capacity to create not only identifications that are different from those which are given to us, but also identifications that at one point are believed to be unviable.
This seminar will take that premise as point of departure to examine how literary works of the modern and contemporary period in Spain have articulated and disrupted notions of place, belonging and departure, at the level of the individual and the collective. We will study texts that explore what...
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Prof. Eduardo Ledesma receives Honorable Mention for IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities
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...
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Megan Gargiulo wins IPRH Prize for Best Graduate Student Research!
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...
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Prof. Vincent Cervantes to debut new performance, "Hay muertos que no hacen ruido"
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...
Prof. Carolyn Fornoff awarded Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
Assistant Professor Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded an inaugural Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Summer Faculty Research Fellowship to work on her book Subjunctive Aesthetics.
Prof. Fornoff is one of only two faculty fellows chosen this first year...
Carmen Gallegos and Almike Vázquez-Lozares win Best Graduate Paper Award
The Best Graduate Student Paper Awards are awarded yearly, one in Literatures and Cultures and one in Hispanic Linguistics. This year's winners of the Best Graduate Student Paper awards are:
Carmen Gallegos (PhD Spanish) Literatures and Cultures for her paper "Líderes indígenas en la prensa:...
John Karam appointed Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Associate Professor John Karam has been appointed Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies for a five-year term beginning August 16, 2020 and continuing until August 15, 2025. He will still be teaching in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as he directs the Center (...