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Steven Marsh publishes new book

Steven Marsh, Professor of Hispanic Studies, has published a new book. Spanish Cinema against Itself was just released with Indiana University Press. According to the publisher, the book “maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and…

José Ángel Navejas's "Illegal" covered on NPR

José Ángel Navejas’s book Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant was covered on the February 23rd installment of NPR’s All Things Considered as part of a discussion of books censored in prison. The book was cited…

Gajic's Paradoxes of Stasis nominated for award

Tatjana Gajic, Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, has had her book Paradoxes of Stasis (U Nebraska Press, 2019) nominated for this year’s South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Book Award. This…

Kara Morgan-Short and Kim Potowski to give plenaries at ITBE 2020

Kara Morgan-Short and Kim Potowski, both Professors of Hispanic Linguistics, will be plenary speakers at the upcoming annual convention of the Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages – Bilingual Education…

David Miller publishes article in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

David Miller, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, recently published an article entitled “You win some, you lose some: Comprehension and event-related potential evidence for L1 attrition” in the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. The…

Alumnus of the Spanish program named Rhodes Scholar

Sami Alahmadi, a 2018 UIC graduate in biological sciences and minor in Spanish, was recently selected as a Rhodes Scholar to represent Saudi Arabia. Sami will study at the University of Oxford where he…