Margarita Saona will participate in the King Juan Carlos Center poetry series at NYU curated by Lila Zemborain, along with Argentinian poet Marina Serrano. The topic of the session is Variations on the…
The Italian program in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies has received a grant of 23,000 euros from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support Italian Studies at UIC for the…
Irene Finestrat, PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, has been awarded the UIC Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching & Mentoring Award for her outstanding contributions in her teaching and extensive mentoring of undergraduate students.…
Abigail Zurita-Calvario, an Honors College senior majoring in political science and Spanish and minoring in French, was recently awarded a U.S. State Department Benjamin A. Gilman scholarship for study abroad. This award aims…
Oscar Campo Becerra, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, has won the first ever Anne Bonny Prize for Narrative for his work Días hábiles. As a reward for winning this new international literary…
David Abugaber (PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics) has been awarded the highly selective William Orr Dingwall Foundation‘s Dissertation Fellowship in the Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Foundations of Language for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Kara Morgan-Short, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Psychology, was interviewed for The Pulse podcast for a story about learning new languages through apps. Read a summary of the segment and listen online.
Liliana Sánchez, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and director of the Bilingualism and Language Contact Lab, and her co-investigator, Elena Koulidobrova, from Central Connecticut State University, have received an National Science Foundation grant for…
Juanita Calvo, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, has been announced as a Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) Fellow for the upcoming 2020-2021 year. The DFI is awarded by the Illinois…