2021-04-29 - The Department of Latina/Latino Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for two full-time, non-tenure track Instructors/Lecturers for the 2021-22 academic year. Start date of August 16, 2021. Candidates are required to hold an M.A. (Ph.D. or other terminal degree preferred) and have experience teaching U.S. Latina/o...

2021-03-16 - Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and TAs who made it onto the University's list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2020!   Burgos, A. HIST/LLS 281, HIST 390 Cervantes, V. SPAN 324 Cisneros, J. COMM 250, 538 De La Garza, J. LLS 242, 442 Ettinger, S. TA-HIST 272 Flores, N. LLS 230, 387 Gonzalez, M. CI 415 Gutierrez, R. CI 547 Lira, N. LLS 235 Mora, J...

2021-03-16 - Prof. Sandra Ruiz has been awarded a Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Campus Fellowship for the 2021–22 academic year for her project titled, “Minoritarian Pedagogy: Psychoanalytic Affections in the Space of Aesthetics.” The Humanities Research Institute has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships to seven...

2021-03-12 - Professor Natalie Lira has been awarded the 2020-21 Latina/Latino Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award honors the Department’s best teachers. Professor Lira is an engaging and dedicated teacher who has had a tremendous impact on students. Beyond the classroom, Professor Lira has worked closely with students in a...

2021-03-03 - Senior Issy Marquez (triple major in Latina/Latino Studies, English, and Political Science) recently received the Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award.   "The annual award goes to one senior from each participating four-year college and university in Illinois. Each year, the Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award is given to a senior at the University of Illinois through the...

2021-02-22 - We are accepting applications for our teaching assistantships for the 2021-22 academic year. The application deadline is March 12, 2021. Visit here for more details.

2021-02-10 - Professor Gilberto Rosas was interviewed for a story on NPR today, February 10, 2011. He was interviewed in connection to his work on the Labor, Health, Equity, Action Project (LHEAP), a collective community-engaged research project that makes it possible for marginalized workers in Rantoul, IL to be tested for COVID-19....

2021-01-19 - Join us for a symposium in memoriam of the life and work of Dr. Edna Viruell-Fuentes on Wednesday, February 17, 12-3pm CT. Visit here for more information.

2020-12-11 - We are pleased to spread the word on the first NUVE publication. LLS majors Fatima Valerio and Marlene Santos and other students are the creators of Nuestra Verdad Publicación (NUVE). Nuestra Verdad Publicación (NUVE) is happy to share their first collective online magazine titled “Nuestras Historias.” This issue focuses and is made up of Latine...

2020-09-10 - Congratulations to the LLS faculty, affiliates, and TAs who made it onto the University's list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring 2020! Eddie Bonilla - LLS 238 Adrian Burgos - HIST 390 David Coyoca - LLS 265, 357 Julie Dowling - LLS 355, 490 Dara Goldman - SPAN 254 Monica Gonzalez - CI 415 Rochelle Gutierrez - CI 404 Jonathan Inda - LLS 387 Natalie Lira - LLS 279 Maria Lopez...

2020-09-09 - The Department is now accepting applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for 2021-22. The application deadline is December 4, 2020. For information on the fellowship and how to apply visit https://lls.illinois.edu/academics/postdoctoral-program/apply.

2020-08-26 - LLS Advising All advising appointments will take place online via Zoom, at least for the fall. If a student has difficulty accessing Zoom, meetings can be held over the phone. If you have any questions concerning the advising protocols for Fall 2020, feel free to contact Alicia P. Rodriguez at aprodrig@illinois.edu or (217)...

2020-08-24 - Dear Latina/o Studies Family and Friends, It is with great sadness that we write to tell you that our dear friend and colleague Prof. Edna Viruell-Fuentes passed away yesterday morning (Sunday, August 23, 2020) in Urbana, IL. We in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies are very much in grief. Edna was an all-around wonderful...

2020-06-23 - It gives us great pleasure to announce that Prof....

2020-06-05 - by Kerime Alejo, Ivan Saucedo, Fatima Valerio, and Dr. Natalie Lira In the late 1960s, Elaine Riddick, a fourteen-year-old Black girl was sterilized while giving birth. Doctors and the North Carolina Eugenics Board considered her "promiscuous," despite the fact that her pregnancy was the result of a rape, and "unable to get along with others." While there was a consent form for the operation,...