04/25/2020 - 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...
News
04/25/2020 - 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...
04/25/2020 - 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!...
04/25/2020 - 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....
04/23/2020 - 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...
04/14/2020 - 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...
04/11/2020 - 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...
04/11/2020 - Associate Professor Eduardo Ledesma received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities for faculty research. The Honorable...
04/04/2020 - 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...
04/03/2020 - 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:...
04/03/2020 - 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 ...
03/31/2020 - 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...
03/31/2020 - PhD Student in Spanish Jone Vicente Urrutia has been awarded a highly competitive SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2020-21. The award is given in recognition of exceptional academic...
03/25/2020 - Two of our outstading graduate students Flávia Batista da Silva (MA Portuguese) and Carmen Gallegos (PhD Spanish) have been awarded prestigious Lemann Graduate Fellowships for AY 2020-21 for their...
03/12/2020 - Two of our stellar graduate students in Spanish have accepted tenure-track Assistant Professor positions, one in Linguistics and one in Literatures and Cultures. Cristina Mostacero Pinilla has...
