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Mark your calendar!!! An event not to miss, tailored to our Spanish and Portuguese graduate students! This workshop is geared towards students who will be on the job market this year or are interested in learning more about the hiring process. This introduction to the market will...

Our amazing Spanish undergraduate advisor, Tasha Robles , has been elected to the Council of Academic Professionals (CAP). The Council of Academic Professionals is an elected assembly serving the interests of full-time, part-time, and retired academic professionals...

The 51st meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place April 29-May 1, 2021. Mark your calendars and join in!!!! For more details you can visit the official Symposium webpage...

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...

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...

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...

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...