In addition to leading an immensely successful group of undergraduate students, Dr. Krishni Burns was awarded an Ovatio at the 2025 Classical Association of the Middle West and South Conference: “Each year since…
CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) 2025 (in Urbana-Champaign) was immensely successful for UIC students and faculty in the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies. Calliope’s Library (Project Director: Dr.…
Claudia Fernández (Hispanic Studies, Director of the Basic Language Program in Spanish) was named the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Teacher of the Year for Higher Education (4 yr) for…
Steven Marsh (Hispanic and Italian Studies) has been invited to become a member of the Advisory Committee of the PMLA, the flagship journal of the Modern Language Association for a 3-year term. “Since 1884…
John Ireland’s (French and Francophone Studies) latest monograph, Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis: Vichy, Algeria, the Aftermath, has been published by the University of Michigan Press. Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis…
Dr. Jill Hallett (Department of Linguistics) presents an innovative project for communicating linguistics to the broader audiences at the 2025 LingComm Conference. More information can be found here: https://lingcomm.org/lingcomm25/schedule-lingcomm25/#full-programme
Esteban Alducin-Borges, a student currently enrolled in an intermediate-level Japanese course, was recently featured in a WBEZ (NPR) article exploring the influence of manga and anime. The article highlights how Japanese pop culture,…
Dr. Hanae Kim (Lecturer and Coordinator of Korean Studies Program) presents her work (Learning through Fandom: K-pop’s Influence on Korean Language Learners) at the 2025 Signature Conference at George Washington University. More information…
Professor Margarita Saona (Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies) has been selected to represent Peru at FILBO 2025, Bogota’s International Book Fair. FILBO is the most important cultural and literary event in Colombia…
Ana Rodriguez Gallego (PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics) was awarded an Award for Graduate Research by the Graduate College. The award will help fund her dissertation research on the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying different…
