Beth Boyd, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the Dr. William Slaymaker Graduate Summer Fellowship.

Andrea Carrillo, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received a IU Graduate and Professional Student Government travel grant to attend LASA 2021 and present her paper "Kidnapping in the Colombian Literary Diaspora: The Narratives by Patricia Engel and Julianne Pachico."

Maria Cintra, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, was awarded travel research funds for her project, "The Harmonic Symbology of Fernando Pessoa's Poetics: A Comparative Study of Literature, Science, and Other Semiotic Systems." The grant was awarded by the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) in partnership with the National Library of Portugal (BNP).

Nofiya Denbaum, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, received a College Arts & Humanities Institute Award in Support of Research and Creativity to support her project "Islander Creole Corpus: Annotation and Archiving."

Megan DiBartolomeo, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

Nathan Douglas, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, was awarded a dissertation fellowship from the North American Catalan Society and the Institut Ramon Llull.

Stacey Hanson, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, was selected as a recipient of the 2021 MIND (Motivación, Inspiración, Dedicación) Award for Impactful and MIND-blowing Teaching to students of Spanish.

Jessica Jacques, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, was selected as a recipient of the 2021 MIND (Motivación, Inspiración, Dedicación) Award for Impactful and MIND-blowing Teaching to students of Spanish.

Dylan Jarret, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, was selected as a recipient of the 2021 MIND (Motivación, Inspiración, Dedicación) Award for Impactful and MIND-blowing Teaching to students of Spanish.

Daniel Jung, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, was selected as a recipient of the 2021 MIND (Motivación, Inspiración, Dedicación) Award for Impactful and MIND-blowing Teaching to students of Spanish.

Gabriela Kolman, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, received the 2021-22 President's Diversity Dissertation Fellowship.

Marcela Lemos, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, was awarded a College of Arts & Humanities travel grant to present her paper, "A Task-Based Need Analysis of Portuguese for Business at College Level" at the 103rd AATSP Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA in July.  She won the AATSP National Graduate Competition during this conference.

Guillermo Lopez-Prieto, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, was awarded a Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship at Butler University for 2021-22.  In addition, he received funding from the Institute for the Digital Arts and Humanities to gather data and visuals for his thesis, "Visceral Violence: Discourse Analysis and Representation of Murder and Injustice in Roberto Bolaño."

Ricardo Martins, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, was awarded the John H. Edwards Fellowship for the academic year 2021-2022.

José Luis Suárez Morales, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literature, was awarded a Center for Research on Race, Ethnicity and Society Graduate Student Grant.

Daniel Runnels, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literature, received the AI teaching award.

Daryl Spurlock, Ph.D. student in Hispanic Literatures, was selected as a recipient of the 2021 MIND (Motivación, Inspiración, Dedicación) Award for Impactful and MIND-blowing Teaching to students of Spanish.

Nilzimar Vieira, Ph.D. student in Portuguese, was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

Ph.D. conferred
Nofiya Denbaum
Juan Manuel Escalona Torres
Valentyna Filimonova
Iraida Galarza Galarza
Justin Knight
Gaëlle Le Calvez House
Fernando Melero-García
Laura Merino
Ian Michalski
Alysa Schroff

M.A. conferred
Melissa Lieffers
Daniel Walzer
Madison Wray

Recent Graduates

Nofiya Denbaum, Ph.D., 2021 (Hispanic Linguistics), has accepted a tenure track position as assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Minnesota State University.

Juan Manuel Escalona Torres, Ph.D., 2021 (Hispanic Linguistics) has accepted a position as lecturer of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Lindsay Giacomino, M.A., 2017 (Hispanic Linguistics) has accepted a position as lecturer in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Iowa State University.

Daniel Jung, Ph.D., 2021 (Hispanic Linguistics), accepted a position as assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies at the University of Indianapolis.

Sean McKinnon, Ph.D., 2020 (Hispanic Linguistics), accepted a position as instructor of Spanish in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University.

Ellen Robinson, Ph.D., 2020 (Hispanic Literatures), accepted a full-time teaching position at Homestead High School in Fort Wayne, IN teaching Spanish III and IV.