03/25/2021 - Prof. Salvatore Callesano has been awarded the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award. The faculty selected for this award are nominated by the...
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02/26/2021 - Ander Beristain Murillo and Jone Vicente Urrutia have received the highly prestigious Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award...
02/25/2021 - Our Department Head, Professor Mariselle Meléndez, has been named the first LAS Dean’s Fellow for Faculty Development. The position, which will start on January 2022...
02/09/2021 - Our PhD student Megan Gargiulo has received the highly competitive Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Fellowship for her project "Gender, and Recogimiento: Discursive...
02/09/2021 - Prof. Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded the very competitive Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Fellowship for her outstanding book project, Subjunctive...
12/18/2020 - Prof. Eduardo Ledesma has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He was named along with Bobby Smith II, Professor of African American studies. Ledesma’s project “Visually...
12/12/2020 - While we hope next year's party will be in person again, Profs. Meléndez and Bowles emceed a plethora of fun and festive activities, games and Maize gift card give aways. Taboo, Pictionary and...
12/09/2020 - The LAS Awards Committee selected our own Melanie Waters for the prestigious and highly competitive LAS Academic Professional Award. This award honors selected...
12/01/2020 - We are proud of our alumna Dr. Robin Ragan who has been nationally recognized with ACTFL's Global...
10/20/2020 - A stellar Spanish major, Sophie Isolde Luijten, receives a prestigious Illinois International Undergraduate Achievement Award. This award recognizes an Illinois...
10/01/2020 - One of our Spanish minors and a Latinx student, junior Alexis Perezchica is now serving as President for the Illinois Student Government. Her inspiring story was featured in ...
10/01/2020 - Jacopo Demarinis, one of our Spanish minors and an intern for Immigration Services of Champaign-Urbana (ISCU) during the spring 2020 semester, received the Student Leadership Award, one of the C-U...
08/30/2020 - This year's Spanish and Portuguese Fall Reception was a resounding success, and quite safe, as it was held via Zoom. Dr. Mariselle Meléndez and Dr. Melissa Bowles emceed an array of...
08/04/2020 - 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...
07/14/2020 - Our amazing Spanish undergraduate advisor, Tasha Robles , has been elected to the Council of Academic Professionals (CAP). The Council of Academic Professionals is...
