2019-05-17
- “Spanish in the Community,” a 200-level course begun in 2005, will this fall become the first General Education (“Gen ED”) course the U of I will offer in a language other than English.
In the fall of 2018, Associate Dean Karen Ritter contacted Spanish and Portuguese department professor and head Mariselle Meléndez about a new gen ed course for U.S. Minorities. She asked about courses that...
2019-05-10 - The Department of Classics at Illinois has received from LAS alumnus George Reveliotis an endowment commitment of $1.5 million, one of the largest gifts to a humanities program on campus. The George N. Reveliotis Family Hellenic Studies Endowment will support a lecturer position in the Department of the Classics, which offers courses in Ancient and...
2019-04-24 - Vincent Cervantes, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, was recently awarded the competitive Criticism & Interpretive Theory Junior Research Fellowship for 2019-2021, from the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. This fellowship support is for his current book in progress, "A Body Exposed: The Aesthetics of Sex, Death, and Mexicanness." The fellowship will help Vincent...
2019-04-24 - Joyce Tolliver, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Director of the Center for Translation Studies, has received the highly competitive University of Illinois Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award. The Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award recognizes “a faculty member who has provided extraordinary leadership contributions across many dimensions of shared governance (e.g., committee...
2019-04-22 - Chris Gipson, a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of the Classics was quite ill the opening weekend of spring break in March when he received a life-changing email. The email informed him that he had received the Fowler-Merle-Smith Fellowship from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) to support a full year of study in Greece for 2019-20. Chris’ reaction? “I...
2019-04-08 - Spanish Advisor Tasha Robles has been awarded the Advisor of the Year award by the University of lllinois United Greek Council (UGC). The award is student-originated and all campus advisors are considered for this distinction. “The fact that the Council elected to choose Tasha underscores both the outstanding job she does in...
2019-04-08 - Pilar Martinez-Quiroga’s article “La detective Bruna Husky de Rosa Montero: Feminismo, distopía y conciencia cyborg” (Hispania 101.2, 2018, pp. 306–17) was recently nominated as the winning Outstanding Article of this year’s competition held by the American Association of teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AASP) flagship...
2019-04-08 - Professor Hans Hock of the Department of Linguistics has received an Honorary Life Membership from the Societas Linguistica Europaea for his service to the society. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) award from the Deccan College Post-Graduate and...
2019-03-29 - Edgar Garbelotto, an MFA candidate in Creative Writing pursuing a Certification in Translation Studies, translated from Portuguese into English a book that was recently reviewed in the New York Times. Garbelotto translated João Gilberto Noll’s novel, Lord, described in the March 22 edition of the Times by critic Jamie Fisher as a “manic treatise on travel and...
2019-03-25 - Eduardo Ledesma, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, is among 7 faculty members who are recipients of Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) fellowships for the 2019–20 academic year. Ledesma received a fellowship for his project “Blind Cinema: Visually Impaired Filmmakers and Technologies of Sight." His book project, Blind Cinema, has two aims: to raise...
2019-03-25 - Diana Sacilowski, a graduate teaching assistant in Slavic Languages and Literatures, is one of only seven graduate U of I students awarded an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) fellowship for her project, “Strategies of Silence: Representations of Jewish Poles in Polish Literature since the 1980s.” In her project she is examining silence in Polish cultural texts since the...
2019-03-19 - Two U of I students from distinct sides of the planet share the same goal after spending 2016-17 in the Year-in-Japan Program: to return to Japan to pursue their future graduate education and careers there. Youyou Zhang of Nanjing, China, a Recreation, Sport and Tourism major, and Blake Adelsperger, a senior linguistics major from Streamwood, Ill., both spent 2016-17 at Konan University, in...
2019-03-11 - When Amber Dunse was seven years old, her visually impaired father shared his braille books with her and her brother. For Amber it was an early immersion into considering people whose needs and perspectives were different. That interest continued in college at University of Wisconsin-River Falls where she would “hang out with the international students” and go on study abroad the spring of her...
2019-03-08 - The Summer Arabic Language Program for High School Students recently learned that it has received a grant from the Qatar Foundation International. The grant will allow the program to provide scholarships to qualified students. These scholarships will cover a portion or even the entire cost of the program for the eligible students, including tuition, fees, and board. Interested students nation-...
2019-03-08 - U of I students Ziheng Yin and Madina Azamova did something a little different in the summer of 2018: they took classes in Turkey. Ziheng had taken Elementary Turkish with Dr. Ayse Ozcan, Director of the Turkish Program in the Department of Linguistics. During Ozcan’s online teaching year from Turkey, Ziheng came to Istanbul for a few days and met with her in 2016. “Obviously, that short trip...