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Luis López publishes new book

Congratulations to Professor Luis López on the publication of his new book with MIT Press: Indefinite Objects. Scrambling, Choice Functions, and Differential Marking. Luis López is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Co-director of…

Kim Potowski to deliver TEDx talk April 12

Time, location and title of talk TBA. Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, will deliver a TEDx talk on April 12, 2013. The TEDx program’s mission is to give communities, organizations and…

Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg awarded an Undergraduate Mentoring Award

Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg was awarded an Undergraduate Mentoring Award for Graduate Students. This new award recognizes the invaluable time, effort, expertise, and concern that UIC Graduate Students dedicate to mentoring undergraduate students in classroom,…

Morgan-Short, Taboada, Weber receive teaching awards

Professors Kara Morgan-Short and Inma Taboada of the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies and Elizabeth Dolly Weber of the Department of French and Francophone Studies are among the recipients of the 2012-2013…

Spanish, Italian students receive $19,250 in study abroad funding

Congratulations to the following Spanish majors and minors, who received $19,250 in grants and scholarships for study abroad: Rhiannon Muncaster, double major in Spanish and German; minor in Russian Amanda Gillis, Spanish minor…

Kay González-Vilbazo receives OSSR grant

Kay González-Vilbazo, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, received a $7000 grant from the UIC Office of Social Science Research for the project “Psycholinguistic Evidence of Bilingual Mode in Online Processing.”

Kara Morgan-Short receives research award

Kara Morgan-Short’s Campus Research Board proposal “Memory-based individual differences in late-learned second language: Accounting for development in proficiency and neurocognitive processing” was funded for $20,000. Morgan-Short is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics…

Kim Potowski featured in Winter 2012 edition of AtLAS

Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program, discusses heritage language teaching and her Fulbright research at the Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, Mexico. Read the…

Margarita Saona presents new book in Perú

On November 8, 2012, Margarita Saona, Associate Professor of Hispanic Literature and Interim Head of Hispanic and Italian Studies, presented her new book of micro-fiction, Objeto perdido, in Lima, Perú. Dr. Susana Reisz…