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Liliana Sánchez receives NSF grant

Liliana Sánchez, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and director of the Bilingualism and Language Contact Lab, and her co-investigator, Elena Koulidobrova, from Central Connecticut State University, have received an National Science Foundation grant for…

Juanita Calvo receives DFI Fellowship

Juanita Calvo, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, has been announced as a Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) Fellow for the upcoming 2020-2021 year. The DFI is awarded by the Illinois…

New publication by Badiola, Sande-Piñeiro, and Núñez-Cedeño

Lucía Badiola (PhD candidate) and Ariane Sande-Piñeiro (PhD 2018) have co-authored with Rafael Núñez-Cedeño (Professor Emeritus) the article “Segmental, syllabic, and phrasal stratum domains of Dominican Surprise-[s] hypercorrection“, published recently by Routledge as…

Irene Finestrat receives Kouvel Fellowship

Irene Finestrat has been selected to receive the Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year. The Kouvel Fellowship provides support for PhD students in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies as…

2020 Sweetser Prize awarded to Kubaitis

The Department of French and Francophone Studies is delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Marie-Odile Sweetser Prize for excellence in French Studies: French club president Emily Kubaitis. The Sweetser Prize is…

Recent LCSL graduate student award winners

Congratulations are due to several LCSL graduate students who have received awards for their research from the UIC Graduate College! This is a testament to all their hard work and the potential of…

Heidi Schlipphacke receives 2019-2020 Graduate Mentoring Award

Heidi Schlipphacke, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, has been named as the 2019-2020 recipient of the Graduate Mentoring Award for the Arts and Humanities division. This award is conferred by UIC Graduate College…

Pedro Antonino named Fulbright English Teaching Assistant

Pedro Antonino, an MA student in French and Francophone Studies who will complete his degree in May 2020 has been named a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant for the upcoming academic year. Pedro will…