Patricia Amaral published the book Noun-based Constructions in the History of Portuguese and Spanish (with Manuel Delicado, Oxford University Press). She was also awarded a senior fellowship from the IU Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH).

Paul Coats was selected as president of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). He also received an Active Learning Grant last year from CITL for his project “Alternative Avenues of Assessment to Increase Participation, Motivation, and Student Buy-in.”

K. Allen Davis was inducted into the IU Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET). He was also promoted to teaching professor this year.

Melissa Dinverno was awarded a Title VI Funding Award in Support of Research from the Institute for European Studies, an IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Research Travel Grant, an IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Research Production Grant, and an Emergency Grant-in-Aid for Research Travel, in partial support of “From Exile to the Center: The Archive of Federico García Lorca,” a museum exhibit that she is coordinating and co-curating at the Centro Lorca in Granada, Spain. She received a Summer Incubator award for 2022 from the IU Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities for “Mapping Material Stories: Creating a Digital Network of García Lorca Archives.” She was also granted a research fellowship for Spring 2023 by the College Arts and Humanities Institute for her monograph Deconstructing Lorca: Memory, Culture, and Nation in Contemporary Spain.

Kimberly Geeslin edited the book The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics. She has also been selected to receive the prestigious IUB Facet Carol Hostetter Lifetime Distinguished Teaching Career Award that honors her career of great distinction and contributions, and recognizes her continued dedication to, and support of, Excellence in Teaching.

Laura Gurzynski-Weiss was promoted to the rank of full professor, gave an invited talk at Temple University (December 2021), and received a Dr. James E. Mumford Excellence in Extraordinary Teaching Award (2021).

Edgar Illas served as the interim director of The Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities for spring 2022. He also published four articles: “Catalan Secessionism and Globalization” (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs), “Global War, Popular Referendums, and (Non-)Declarations of Independence” (Angelaki. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities), “Perplexity, Global Disorder, Catalonia and Albert Garcia Elena’s Poetry” (Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies), and “Survival Gone Viral” (Culture, Theory and Critique).

Rhi Johnson has translated an anthology of poetry by the Galician poet María Rosalía de Castro, entitled Because I Want to See the Sea.

Julie Madewell has received the Trustees’ Teaching Award for NTT Faculty in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for 2022.

Consuelo López-Morillas helped translate the introductory study to The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, A Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603).

Luciana Namorato has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar for her project The Literary Embrace: Transatlantic Exchange in the Portuguese-Speaking World, 1840-1910. She was also awarded a Symposia and Workshop Grant by the College Arts and Humanities Institute. This support will help her to organize the event “Brazilian Modern Art and Culture: 1922-2022.”

Sandra Ortiz was accepted into The Faculty Learning Community: Introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

Jonathan Risner published an essay entitled “The Reach of Genre: The Emergence of Chilean Horror Cinema” which appeared in the collection entitled Chilean Film in the Twenty-First- Century World. He was also awarded the Trustees' Teaching Award in March of 2022.

Darlene Sadlier authored a book titled A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film which is a comprehensive tour of feature and short films that have charted the social and political story of modern Brazil.

Dinorah Sapp has been selected by the U.S. Department of State for a three-month English language specialist virtual project focusing on business English curriculum and materials at The Binational Center (BNC) in Monterrey, Mexico.

Megan Solon was awarded a Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning Summer Instructional Development Fellowship for Summer 2022 to incorporate task-based assessments into First Year Spanish (S105) courses. She also completed the FACET peer review training to become a certified peer reviewer of teaching at IU and was an inaugural fellow of the Digital Gardener Initiative to promote digital literacy on campus. During this past year, her research was published in Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and Applied Linguistics, as well as several edited volumes.

Steven Wagschal was selected as a 2021-2022 Faculty Fellow for the Indiana University Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH).

Reyes Vila-Belda published a poetic anthology: Ellas cuentan la guerra: Las poetas españolas y la guerra civil (Antología 1936-2013) (Renacimiento 2022) and was interviewed for the digital newspaper El Español for the anthology’s publication.