Veronica Vegna, Director of the Italian Language Program, Languages Across the Curriculum Coordinator, Senior Instructional Professor in RLL has received the 2022 Glenn and Claire Swogger Award for Exemplary Classroom Teaching. The Swogger Award was established to recognize outstanding instructors who introduce our students to habits of scholarly thinking through the College Core. Congratulations Veronica!
RLL alum Elizabeth Tavella (PhD’20) has been awarded the Humanities Division’s 2022-23 Julius Rosenwald Postdoctoral Fellowship. This research fellowship is renewable for a second year. Elizabeth, current Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, adopts a global and transdisciplinary approach to address complex environmental issues and promote multispecies justice. Her dissertation is titled, “Seeking Interspecies Justice: Spaces of Animal Confinement in Italian Literature,” and she has published several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
Assistant Instructional Professor, Juliano Saccomani has been awarded a 2022-23 Provost's Global Faculty Award for his work, “Virtual Reality: a critical immersive perspective from Rio de Janeiro”.
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz has won the Nineteenth Century Section of the Association of Latin American Studies' 2022 Best Article Award for “After Redemption and Abandonment: José Antonio Aponte’s Libro de pinturas in the Field of Visual Portraiture,” Colonial Latin American Review, 30.2, 305-340.
Congratulations to Gerdine Ulysse for winning the African and Caribbean Student Association's Faculty Award! The award recognizes "African/Caribbean faculty at UChicago who have advanced lifestyles for Caribbean or African students."
