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    Professor honored by campus for excellence in undergraduate teaching

    Professor Valeria Sobol from the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures has been selected as the recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Sobol had already received the LAS Dean’s Award for...
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  • Katie Vandyne

    Helping students connect with language on a new level

    The College of LAS recently recognized 14 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and an advisor as the recipients of the 2023 teaching and advising awards, including Katie VanDyne, a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. She was selected for the LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate...
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    Professor emerita wins 2022-23 Digital Innovation Award

    Mara Wade, professor emerita in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, was recently recognized by the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) for her digital project, Emblematica Online. The project received the RSA’s 2022-23 Digital Innovation Award, which recognizes excellence in digital projects that support the study of the Renaissance. This year, two...
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  • Classics professor organizes international conference in Rome
    Classics professor Antony Augoustakis co-organized a major international conference earlier this year, bringing together scholars from around the globe. In partnership with Radboud University and Anchoring Innovation in the Netherlands, as well as Newcastle University and St. Andrews University...
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  • SLCL faculty and graduate students receive HRI fellowship awards for 2023-24
    The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual faculty and graduate student fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from the campus for the 2023–...
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  • How heritage speakers are driving language change
    Childhood is a key time when it comes to maintaining a heritage language. A new book by Spanish and linguistics professor Silvina Montrul brings together three such languages—Hindi, Romanian, and Spanish—spoken in the U.S. and demonstrates how heritage speakers can end up driving language change as...
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School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Statistics

  • $4.5 Million + of Grant Funding for Research since 2009
    of Grant Funding for Research since 2009
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    Faculty and Teaching Staff
  • 25 Majors, 23 Minors and 22 Concentrations
    25 Majors, 23 Minors & 22 Concentrations
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