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Professor Núñez-Cedeño publishes new book

Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies, has published a new edited book with Mouton de Gruyter, Germany: The Syllable and Stress: Studies in Honor of James W. Harris (Studies in Generative Grammar)  available now…

Hispanic Linguistics PhD Jeanne Heil accepts tenure-track position

Recent Hispanic Linguistics PhD graduate, Jeanne Heil, accepted a tenure-line position at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia. Heil successfully defended her dissertation, “Infinitivals At The End State: Evidence For The L2 Acquisition Of…

Rosie Hernández honored with LAS Mid-Career Award

Rosie Hernández, Associate Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies, has been honored with the 2016-2017 LAS Mid-Career Award. The Mid-Career award offers support to tenured Associate Professors in their efforts to produce important…

Luis López has received an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship

Luis López, Professor and Acting Head of Hispanic and Italian Studies, has received an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. As a Humboldt Fellow, he will spend three months conducting linguistic research in Berlin, Germany at the…

Maryann Parada awarded ANS 2015 Emerging Scholar Award

The American Name Society has just selected Maryann Parada, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, for its 2015 Emerging Scholar Award. The title of her submission was “Ethnolinguistic emblems…

Professor Steve Marsh to discuss 'Why Film History?' at Chicago Film Seminar

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar on Wednesday, January 13th, at 6:30pm, for an exciting roundtable discussion, titled “Why Film History?: Discipline, Institution, and the Archive in Spanish Cinema Studies.” Roundtable participants, Professors Vicente Sánchez-Biosca…

Maryann Parada receives Chancellor's Award

Maryann Parada, ABD Hispanic and Italian Studies, is among a select few 2015 Chancellor’s Graduate Research Award recipients. The Chancellor’s Graduate Research Award supports multidisciplinary scholarship opportunities and exposure to varied research and creative fields for…

Dr. Chiara Fabbian receives certificate of recognition from AATI

At the last general meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Italian at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Associate Clinical Professor of Italian Chiara Fabbian was presented with a certificate “in recognition of the time,…