Patrícia Amaral co-organized a workshop at the IU Europe Gateway in Berlin titled “Time and Events in Language and Cognition” in March 2025, which brought together semantics scholars from several European universities as well as IU Alumni. In addition, Amaral was awarded the GSAC Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in 2024.

Deborah Cohn was an invited speaker and delivered the lecture “Notes from an Accidental Advocate” for the Opening Plenary of 2025 MAPS Leadership Institute: “Creative Vision, Pragmatic Victories: Strategies for Impactful Humanities Leadership” in June 2025. She was also elected and assumed the position as the MLA's ALD Executive Committee.

Manuel Díaz Campos delivered a lecture titled “La enseñanza de la variación para aprendices de segunda lengua” on March 29, 2025, for the Centro de Estudios de la ANLE (CEANLE). He also received a grant from the College Arts and Humanities Institute in support of his project, “Second Edition of Introduction to Hispanic Sociolinguistics.” In recognition of his excellence in teaching, he was also awarded the 2025 Trustees Teaching Award. Additionally, his forthcoming book, Enciclopedia concisa de los dialectos del español, will be published by Wiley in August 2025.

Melissa Dinverno was awarded an IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowship for 2025-26, forming part of an 8-person cohort of IU scholars for the academic year. Dinverno also received a Jean Monnet Faculty Travel & Research Grant from the Institute for European Studies in partial support of a virtual tour of the exhibit she co-curated in Granada titled Lorca and the Archive: Memory in Motion. For more information see the Faculty Spotlight.

Cesar Félix-Brasdefer co-organized the Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference at Indiana University. 

Andrés Guzmán published the article “Loops, Loops, Loops: Torsion, Freedom, and Form in Tomás Rivera’s…y no se lo tragó la tierra” in theMELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US, vol. 49, no. 4, 2024, pp. 1-22. He was also named the new director of the Cultural Studies Program at Indiana University, beginning July 1, 2025.

Israel Herrera won the 2024 IU FACET P.A. Mack Award for Excellence and Distinguished Service to Teaching; the Indiana Latino Educator of the Year Award; the national Klett/AATSP World Languages Award in Leadership and Program Innovation in Spanish and Portuguese; and the Martin Luther King Jr. Building Bridges Award. Read more about these awards in the Faculty Spotlight.

Edgar Illas published two articles: “Mythic, National, Global, Geological: The Countryside in Catalan Literature” in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 25.4 (2024): 477-91, and “Ontological Magma: Between Difference and Relation,” in the Special Issue: “Thinking with Glissant” in the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 32.1/2 (2024): 84-91. He was also invited to give the Inaugural Lesson of 2024-25 Course “La universitat medieval-global” for the College of Letters, Universitat de Girona, October 2024. Illas also received the Gregory A. Huffman International Travel Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University, for the project "Catalan Natural Wine: A Hyperpolitics of the Earth."

Virginia Hojas Carbonell won the inaugural FACET Brancato-Orr Award.

Consuelo López-Morillas (Prof. Emerita) translated Stefania Pastore’s, An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559), Leiden: Brill, 2024.

Sandra Ortiz received two teaching-related fellowships: a Learning Analytics Faculty Fellowship and a Global Community Engaged Learning Course Design Institute Fellowship.

Robin Reeves was awarded a 2025 Trustees Teaching Award and received two teaching-related fellowships: a COAS Career Connections Fellowship and a Digital Gardener Fellowship offered by UITS Learning Technologies.

Olimpia Rosenthal was invited to give a lecture and participate in a workshop at the University of Michigan in February of 2025. She also received a research travel grant from the College Arts and Humanities Institute in support of research travel to Poland and Ireland as part of new book project: Weeping Trees’ Tales: Narratives of Hevea Brasiliensis, the Global Rubber Boom, and the Political Ecology of Empire.