Patrícia Amaral was promoted to the rank of full Professor. This summer she taught a course in the Summer Institute of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Deborah Cohn received a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society (2023). She was also named Roosevelt Visiting Professor at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, Netherlands (Spring 2024). Both recognitions are for her project “American Studies, Modern Language Study, and the National Defense during the Cold War.” Prof. Cohn further delivered the keynote address “Translation and/as Soft Power: Latin American Literature in the U.S. during the Cold War” for the Colóquio Machado de Assis: tradução, edição e circulação internacional, held at the University of São Paulo (October 2022).  

Allen Davis was inducted into IUB FACET (2023) and received the Dr. James Mumford Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Award (Spanish and Portuguese) .

Melissa Dinverno was awarded a Grant-in-Aid for Research in Spring 2023 in partial support of From Exile to the Center: The Archive of Federico García Lorca, a museum exhibit that she is coordinating with Andrew A. Anderson (U of Virginia) and Christopher Maurer (Boston University), and co-curating at the Centro Lorca in Granada, Spain . She also received a Faculty Fellowship for 2023-2024 from the IU Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities as PI for Mapping Material Stories: A Digital Network of García Lorca Archives, a project also in collaboration with Professors Anderson and Maurer. In Spring 2023, she held a Research Fellowship from the College Arts and Humanities Institute for her monograph Mediating Memory: García Lorca & the Legacies of the Past in Democratic Spain .

Cesar Félix-Brasdefer received the 2023 Trustees’ Teaching Award. He was also appointed Academic Director of the IU Mexico Gateway (effective January 2023) . You can read more about Prof. Felix-Brasdefer’s accomplishments here.

Laura Gurzynski-Weiss was promoted to the rank of full Professor (July 2022). She was also inducted into FACET and received a Travel Award from the Office for the Vice Provost of International Affairs to present at the Task-Based Language Teaching Biennial Conference in Thailand (June 2023).

Israel Herrera was awarded the 2023 AATSP Outstanding Service Award.   He was also inducted to ANLE, which you can read more about here.

Virginia Hojas Carbonell received the 2023 Trustees’ Teaching Award. She also received a Summer Active Learning Grant, CITL (2023) and was elected to the Bloomington Faculty Council (2023).

Alejandro Mejias-Lopez was invited to give a Keynote Address, “‘ Las primitivas fuentes naturales’: Primitivism, Modernism, and the Avant Garde in the Postcolonial Atlantic,” at the international conference The Trouble with Primitivis: Uses of the Past in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal (May 27, 2022). In 2022, he also received an International Mobility Grant to travel to Lisbon, and a Grant-in-Aid to support his work in the project Contemporary Colonialities in Mexico and Beyond.  

Kathleen Myers received the IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Grant to publish an open access monograph titled A Country of Shepherds: Cultural Geographies and Pastoralism. She was also invited to give a lecture, “Unfixing Space and Time in Colonial Latin American Studies” at the Futures of the Past: Latin American Colonial Studies in the 21st Century colloquium, held at Tulane University (November 2022).

Sandra Ortiz was awarded the Decoding the Disciplines Fellowship, which is designed to explore new ways to help more students make the transition from high school to college and is funded by Indiana University.

Jonathan Risner was awarded an IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Research Travel Grant for his research on home movies made during the Franco era in Spain.    

Olimpia Rosenthal received a Sawyer Seminar Award from the Mellon Foundation for the project Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom. Prof. Rosenthal was interviewed about the award, along with co-organizer Pedro Machado, which you can read here. The Seminar will take place during the fall of 2023 and spring of 2024, and, among other activities, will feature an exhibition at the Lilly Library (August-December 2023 ) and a monthly reading group. For more information, visit here.