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…
A book by Dagmar Lorenz, professor emerita of Germanic Studies, has been featured on Choice magazine’s 2019 list of Outstanding Academic Titles. Her book, Nazi Characters in German Propaganda and Literature (2018, Brill), argues that…
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…
Irene Finestrat, PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, has been awarded the Provost’s Graduate Research Award for the 2019-2020 academic year. The PGRA supports multidisciplinary scholarship to expose students to varied research and creative fields. Irene’s award…
Zuka’a Joudeh, who double majored in Germanic Studies and Political Science (Class of 2019), reached the finalist stage in the incredibly competitive competition for a Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most prestigious post-graduate…
The Department of French & Francophone Studies has been awarded a Bridge to the Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the field of Francophone Studies through the Office of Diversity and the Office…
Erin Gizewski, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, published the essay “Breaking the Cycle: Establishing a New Feminist Phenomenology within Movement-Image in Maren Ade’s The Forest for the Trees” in Focus on German Studies…