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 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…
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, 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…
The Call for Papers for the 5th Annual Graduate Student Conference Organized by the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois-Chicago, and Northwestern University is officially open.…
David Abugaber, a PhD candidate in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for his dissertation research “Disentangling neural indices of…
José Ángel Navejas, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies, recently gave a speech at Chapman University. The speech focused about the border and immigration controversies in the US and on the…
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…
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…