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…
The UIC BilForum is dedicated to research in any area related to bilingualism, including theoretical linguistics, code-switching, SLA, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, heritage languages and bilingual acquisition. The conference will take place October 2nd-3rd, 2014. …
Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg has been awarded a Language Learning Dissertation Grant to support her doctoral thesis research. This grant is awarded by the journal “Language Learning,” which is one of the top journals in…
Please join us in congratulating Kay González-Vilabazo, Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, who is one of the recipients of this year’s Graduate Mentoring Award.
Please join us in congratulating Bernie Issa for being awarded the Language Learning Dissertation Grant, which is the third award he has won supporting his dissertation!
Nathan Tancula, a German major with the Business minor and a minor in Italian, has just received an internship with the U.S. State Department for Summer 2014. Nathan will intern with the Areas…
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 43 First Call for Papers Call Deadline: June 1, 2014 We are pleased to announce that the 43rd New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV 43) will be held on…
Congratulations to Bernard Issa of the Hispanic and Italian Studies Department for receiving a prestigious National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. The NSF award letter stated that his dissertation project “shows a solid connection…