Professor Heidi Schlipphacke (Germanic Studies) was nominated for recognition as Honors Instructor of the Year in the Honors College. Congratulations, Prof. Schlipphacke!
Congratulations to Dr. Angéla Betancourt-Ciprian (Hispanic Studies) for receiving an award for the Open Textbook Faculty Incentive Program! With this award, she will begin developing materials for implementation in Spanish 113 (first-semester of our…
Alexis Berles, PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, was awarded a Graduate College Award for Graduate Research! The award will support her dissertation research, which examines the role of learning context and cognitive control…
Charlie Johnson, PhD candidate in Germanic Studies, has been awarded a DAAD Fellowship toward the completion of their dissertation on trans figurations in the German-language Bildungsroman. During the academic year 2026-2027, Charlie will…
Professor Margarita Saona (Hispanic Studies) is presenting at the Lit & Luz festival in Mexico. She will give a talk on her book ‘De monstruos y cyborgs’ and then will participate in the 2026…
Jess Ward, PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics, was awarded a 3-month fellowship through the Collaborative Research Centre in Potsdam, Germany! She will be running a linguistics experiment (on resumptive elements in relative clauses)…
Dr. Jill Hallett (Linguistics) was interviewed by WBEZ on the morning program Say More to discuss what makes a Chicago accent. Dr. Hallett highlights how accent is shaped by social factors such as…
Kasia Majchrowicz-Wolny, PhD student and Coordinator of the Polish Basic Language Program, was awarded the UIC Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award! The Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching & Mentoring Award…
Professor Giedrius Subačius has recently published Simonas Daukantas’s Lowland Lithuanian Orthography (1846–1864) (Vilnius: Lithuanian Institute of History, 2025, 660 pp). This is Prof. Subačius’s third work about nineteenth century Lithuanian orthography. Congratulations, Prof.…
Professor Karen Underhill’s book Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity (Indiana University Press, 2024) has been awarded the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the Best Book in Slavic Languages and Literatures.…