Dr. Margarita Saona (Hispanic Studies), co-created with Magali Lara, performed at the Chicago Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show – Repair this past Friday. This was the headlining event at the Lit &…
The School of LCSL’s pop-up pantry (located in UH 1650) was recently featured in Block Club Chicago! Professor Jill Hallett (Dept. of Linguistics) and Chloe Swerdlick (MA student, Hispanic Linguistics) recently initiated the…
The Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies is excited to wish congratulations to Dr. Daniel Everhart, who successfully defended his dissertation “Fragments and Fantasies of Freedom: Queer Cultural Production during the Spanish Transition…
From pandemic-era communication to cutting-edge natural language processing, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Professor Liliana Sánchez and her research team lead global efforts to advance inclusive language technology for indigenous communities. Professor…
Congratulations to Dr. Liliana Sánchez (Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, PI) and Dr. Gyu-Ho Shin (Department of Linguistics, Co-PI), who have been awarded a prestigious three-year National Science Foundation grant for their…
Professor Kara Morgan-Short (Hispanic Studies and Psychology) was a keynote speaker at the 34th Conference of the European Second Language Acquisition Association. The address was titled “Electrifying SLA: Neurocognitive insights into the potential…
In collaboration with UIC’s Study Abroad Office, Professor Stephanie Munoz-Navarro (Hispanic Studies) led and launched the Revolutionary Art and Language in Mexico City Study Abroad program this summer! Fourteen students travelled to Mexico…
Jess Ward (PhD Student, Hispanic Linguistics) was awarded a Graduate College Award for Graduate Research! The award will help fund her dissertation research on heritage Spanish speakers’ acquisition of Portuguese as a third…
Dr. Dianna Niebylski was awarded a Graduate Mentoring Award from the UIC Graduate College! This is a competitive award for which faculty must be nominated by students. Congratulations, Professor Niebylski!
Professor Chiara Fabbian (Director of the Italian Program & Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian) was awarded the 2025 LAS Faculty Service Award! The LAS Faculty Service award recognizes exceptional service to the…
