Please join SLAT in congratulating Dr. Sheilah Nicholas on receiving the Graduate College's Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award! Dr. Nicholas is a Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies (TLS), and an affiliated Professor in SLAT and American Indian Studies. 

The Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Awards are the highest honor presented by the Graduate College in recognition of distinguished graduate teaching and mentoring. Awardees are recognized for their long-standing commitment to excellence in graduate education, including mentoring, professional development, and a dedication to diversity and inclusion.

Congratulations Dr. Nicholas!

Congratulations to SLAT Ph.D. Candidate Veronica Oguilve, who has received the Andrew C. Comrie Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Doctoral Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year! This fellowship is awarded to outstanding doctoral students who are performing cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. Well done, Veronica!

Please join SLAT in congratulating Dr. Chris Tardy on having the winning article for the Best Article of 2021 Awards, as voted on by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Second Language Writing! Dr. Tardy's article, titled "The potential power of play in second language academic writing", can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2021.100833Get rights and content

Dr. Tardy is a Professor in the Department of English, Associate Director of the Writing Program, and a Professor in the SLAT program. Congratulations Dr. Tardy!

Congratulations to SLAT Ph.D. Candidate Daniela Torres Cirina on receiving the Crossing Latinadades Mellon Humanities Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year! Crossing Latinadades is a new consortium of 16 Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) funded by a pilot grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The purpose of the consortium is to build a framework for collaborative research, cultural programming, teaching, and archive sharing in the Latinx Humanities. As part of the fellowship, Daniela will also be spending two weeks at the University of Illinois, Chicago during Summer 2022, exploring and reimagining a comparative framework for Latino Studies.