Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature, and Religion, will be the featured discussant for a showing of Mira Nair’s Mira Nair’s 1991 film, “Mississippi Masala,” at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign (126 W. Church St.) on Tuesday, January 29.
The gateway to a global learning experienceSLCL provides instruction in more than 35 languages, and we offer study abroad residential programs that have served more than 500 participants since 2009.
Local and Global ImpactThe contributions of our alumni and students reach far and deep, from humanitarian aid to computational linguistics.
An active, Award-winning facultyOur diverse and talented faculty have received national and international awards and fellowships for their scholarship, teaching, and service.
LAS: S&P Study Abroad in BarcelonaBarcelona program group at Dalí Theatre-Museum.
Illinois Program in ParisIllinois Program in Paris group at Vaux-le-Vicomte in Maincy, France.
Illinois Year-in-Japan ProgramThe Illinois Year-in-Japan Program is one of several study abroad opportunities offered through the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics.
Eric Calderwood, Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature, recently received an honorable mention in the William Riley Parker Prize competition for an outstanding article published in PMLA, the association’s journal of literary scholarship.
Thousands of letters written by Marcel Proust (1871-1922) will be available to scholars, Proust fans and the public on a website created by University of Illinois researchers and their partners in France to digitize Proust’s correspondence.
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