This weekend, the LICO Research Group at UIC co-hosted with Urbana-Champaign the 43rd annual meeting of New Ways in Analyzing Variation, the largest international conference on sociolinguistics. Many phonemes, morphemes, and processes were analyzed; three Festschrifts and…
Daniel Vergara, PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Research of the Bilingualism Research Laboratory, won best student poster award at NWAV conference. Best Student Poster Award: Award – Vergara – University of Illinois at Chicago Honorable…
Alumni, Eugenio DiStefano and Emilio Sauri edited the current issue of Nonsite which focuses on the contemporary relationship between literature and politics in Latin America today. The issue also features an article by our alumni…
John Benjamins Publishing is pleased to announce the addition of a new co-editor for the book series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro (University of Illinois at Chicago) will join current editor…
Steven Marsh has been invited to join the Editorial Collective of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies is one of the leading journals in the field of Hispanic Studies.…
Steven Marsh recently took part in a round table discussion at the inaugural screening in Madrid of the festival, “40 AÑOS NO ES NADA (Reflejos y derivas del cine militante español contemporáneo)”/ 40 Years is Nothing…
Kara Morgan-Short, Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, has had her research prominently featured in the Guardian article ‘What happens in the brain when you learn a language?’
As of January 2015, Kara Morgan-Short will be an Associate Editor with the top-tier journal Language Learning! This makes the FOURTH internationally-ranked journal with School faculty as editors.
Please join us in congratulating our Graduate Students! Junice Acosta has accepted an Assistant Professor position in Spanish at Southern Utah University. Rubén Pérez-Hidalgo has accepted a full time professorship position at Dominican University. Melissa…
Rosilie Hernández, Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, has been awarded one of six Faculty Fellowships by the Institute for the Humanities for 2014-2015 academic year. This is the thirty-second group of…