Margarita Saona’s sparse, clinically precise yet mysterious prose casts a spell upon her readers. Nothing says post-anthropocentric like Saona’s stories. Her characters, resisting gender and other labels inhabit cities that while existing in…
Rosilie Hernández, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will participate in the American Council of Learned Societies’ very first Leadership Institute for a New Academy .…
Join LCSL in congratulating, Liliana E. Sánchez, UIC professor of Hispanic and Italian studies, is quoted in a National Geographic article on the revitalization of the Garifuna language in Central America.
Please join us in congratulating both Margarita Saona and Keith Budner have been named recipients of the Institute for the Humanities Fellowships for the forthcoming academic year. This is an extraordinary achievement for…
Congratulations to our very own graduate student, Anna Torres Mallma, who has recently published an article titled “Recordar el futuro a través de la caminata distópica en la novela Jinete a pie de…
We are happy to announce that once again the Italian program received considerable external funding, namely: 24,000 euros ($27,000) from the Italian ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a “tangible sign of attention” of…
The graduate students of the UIC Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies are once again collaborating with their colleagues at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University to organize the Chicago Graduate Conference…
Margarita Saona’s book of short fiction, La ciudad en que no estás (Lima, 2021), has been nominated for the 2021 Luces Award in the short story category. This award is sponsored by El…
Lidia Aguilera Lora and Megan Marshall, both PhD students in Hispanic Linguistics, have been awarded the Provost’s Graduate Research Award. This annual “seed funding” competition helps students to develop stronger applications for funding…
