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…
Kara Morgan-Short, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Psychology, gave one of three plenaries at the 2021 ALAK International Symposium for Young Researchers in Applied Linguistics & International Conference. The conference was held online…
Rosilie Hernández, Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Hispanic & Italian Studies, was recently named to President’s Executive Leadership Program for the…
Liliana Sánchez, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, and her SAIPM-COVID19 collaborators have been using their linguistic and cultural research to help create effective health education materials for minority and indigenous communities in response to…
Bernardo Navia, an alumnus of the Ph.D. program in Hispanic Studies and a lecturer in the Spanish Heritage Language Program, has just published a new book Forasteros: Tres narraciones peregrinas. It was reviewed…
