2021-05-21 - Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, recently received the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2021 Premio Sylvia Molloy for Best...
2021-05-21 - The Department of Linguistics recently announced its award recipients for their accomplishments during the 2020-2021 academic year. In the MA in Teaching English as a Second Language category, Alice Houston received the Peter Strevens Award for Academic Excellence, and the Peter Strevens Award for...
2021-05-19 - The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recently announced its list of named scholars, and there are some familiar names in it, including: John Barnard (Comparative and...
2021-05-12 - Carolyn Fornoff, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, is among four early career professors who have been recognized as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their outstanding contributions and potential in research and teaching. The LEAP award is granted to...
2021-05-12 - Carmen Gallegos of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese has been awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for AY 2021-2022. This competitive, campus-level award will allow Carmen to complete her dissertation project, “Quantifying Amazonia: Ecocritical fictions during and...
2021-05-05 - Manuel Fernandez, Adriana Guevara, and Johana Machuca of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Riley Masterson of the Department of French and Italian recently received 2021-22 Scheidel Award Scholarships. Fernandez is a sophomore majoring in Astronomy and Spanish. Guevara is a senior...
2021-04-22 - Charlotte Prieu of French and Italian and Sophie Luijten of Spanish and Portuguese recently were among those UIUC students honored in this year’s 9th Annual Diversity & Social Justice Education Social Justice Awards. Prieu was named in the Outstanding Graduate category and Luijten in the...
2021-04-21 - Kolten Conklen, a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from Sterling, Illinois, is among 16 students nationally awarded the Beinecke Scholarship. Valued at $34,000, the Beinecke award supports graduate study in the arts,...
2021-04-19 - Lilya Kaganovsky, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has received an NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Stipend for her project, “Fifty Years of Soviet Women’s...
2021-04-12 - Kara Warburton, Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies, has published a new book titled The Corporate Terminologist, published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company. The Corporate Terminologist is the first monograph that addresses the principles and methods...
2021-03-30 - LeiAnna X. Hamel, a Ph.D candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, has been awarded a Graduate Student Fellowship from the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) of UIUC for the 2021-22 academic year. Her research project is titled “Undisciplined Bodies: Deviant Female Sexuality in Russian and...
2021-03-26 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics has announced the students who have been awarded the 2021-2022 SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships. The executive committee that made the awards expressed their admiration at the range and intellectual depth of the students’ projects....
2021-03-18 - SLCL teachers winning awards for excellence in instruction is an annual occurrence, and this year is no exception. Tania Ionin, Professor of Linguistics, received the Campus Award for Excellence in Instruction in the faculty category for graduate and professional teaching. Ryan Shosted, Professor...
2021-03-12 - Brady Hughes is the new Academic Advisor for Spanish. He advises Spanish majors and minors on program requirements, opportunities on campus, and more. Brady also...
2021-03-04 - Three SLCL professors and one doctoral student have won HRI (Humanities Research Institute) Fellowships for the 2021–22 academic year, with projects that address the theme “Symptoms of Crisis”. They are among seven faculty members and seven graduates to be honored this year. The recipients...