Margarita Saona, Professor of Hispanic Studies, was recently announced as the recipient of the II Premio Internacional de Investigación Literaria «Revista Crátera» for her unpublished essay “La enfermedad como experiencia estética: Matrix Lux…
José Ángel Navejas, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies, was interviewed by Nina Metz of the Chicago Tribune in connection with Oprah’s controversial selection of American Dirt for her Book Club…
Claudia Fernández, director of the Spanish Basic Language Program, was recently interviewed on Chicago Public Radio’s “Voces de Español.” She discussed Spanish language teaching at the university level. You can watch the interview…
David Abugaber, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, has received a Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award. These awards recognize “outstanding student leaders and student volunteers who, while maintaining high academic achievement, demonstrate…
Óscar Campo Becerra, a PhD candidate in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, has been awarded a dissertation completion fellowship for the 2020-21 academic year through the IUPLR/UIC Mellon Fellowship Program. This…
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…
