During an interview on BBC World Service’s “Newsday,” Rosilie Hernández, UIC associate professor in the department of Hispanic and Italian studies, discussed the significance of work by Miguel de Cervantes, a leading Spanish…
The Institute for the Humanities is delighted to announce the appointment of six faculty fellows for 2015-2016, pending approval of the Board of Trustees. The 2015-2016 Fellows workshops and lectures will anchor a…
The latest issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies on Spanish Film and Spectrality (edited by Steven Marsh) has been published and is now available online.
Ana Baez, Graduate Student in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, has been awarded the Fellowship of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research from the Mellon foundation. This fellowship program is specifically designed…
February 1 is the deadline for proposals for the Chicago Language Symposium, co-sponsored by the LCLC, DePaul, U of C, and Northwestern. Proposals from all languages and TESOL are welcome. See below for…
Professor Rosie Hernandez has been elected to the executive council of the Cervantes Society of America for a three-year term. The CSA promotes the work of Miguel de Cervantes and Early Modern Studies…
Sixth Annual In/Between Conference March 5-6, 2015 The School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics invites papers based on all current research by our faculty and graduate students. No matter your topic, we’d…
We are pleased to announce the first ever interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago hosted by graduate students from different departments in the School of…
“Margarita Saona examines the mechanisms activated by art and memorials built to commemorate traumatic events at the social level. By examining images, metonymic invocations, the use of proper names, auratic crime scenes, built…