Zoie Sheets, a Biological Sciences major with minors in Spanish and Chemistry, is one this year’s prestigious Truman Scholar recipients. The highly competitive Truman Scholarship was awarded to just 54 students nationwide, and…
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…
Rosilie Hernández, Associate Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies, to participate in the Newberry Library’s Cervantes and Shakespeare: A Transnational Conversation.
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, 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, 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…
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…
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, 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…
