PORT 240 Rapid Portuguese for Romance Language Speakers Portuguese grammar for Romance Language Speakers, with a communicative approach to develop the ability to understand, speak, read and write in intermediate to advanced level…
Abigail Zurita-Calvario, an Honors College senior majoring in political science and Spanish and minoring in French, was recently awarded a U.S. State Department Benjamin A. Gilman scholarship for study abroad. This award aims…
Oscar Campo Becerra, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, has won the first ever Anne Bonny Prize for Narrative for his work Días hábiles. As a reward for winning this new international literary…
David Abugaber (PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics) has been awarded the highly selective William Orr Dingwall Foundation‘s Dissertation Fellowship in the Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Foundations of Language for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Kara Morgan-Short, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Psychology, was interviewed for The Pulse podcast for a story about learning new languages through apps. Read a summary of the segment and listen online.
Liliana Sánchez, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and director of the Bilingualism and Language Contact Lab, and her co-investigator, Elena Koulidobrova, from Central Connecticut State University, have received an National Science Foundation grant for…
Juanita Calvo, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, has been announced as a Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) Fellow for the upcoming 2020-2021 year. The DFI is awarded by the Illinois…
David Abugaber, PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, has been awarded the John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society. David was chosen from over 200 applicants for this award designed to…
Lucía Badiola (PhD candidate) and Ariane Sande-Piñeiro (PhD 2018) have co-authored with Rafael Núñez-Cedeño (Professor Emeritus) the article “Segmental, syllabic, and phrasal stratum domains of Dominican Surprise-[s] hypercorrection“, published recently by Routledge as…
Irene Finestrat has been selected to receive the Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year. The Kouvel Fellowship provides support for PhD students in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies as…
