2025-03-12 - Waïl Hassan, professor and head of the Department of Comparative & World Literature, has been elected second vice president of the Modern Language Association, the largest national scholarly organization in literary studies.

2025-03-06 - 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 2025–26 academic year. 

2025-02-10 -   The National Herald, the paper of record for the Greek Diaspora community, recently highlighted the Department of Classics on the front page of their Greek Language Edition. The department's classics and...

2025-02-06 - A professor and a graduate teaching assistant from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have been selected as recipients of the 2025 College of LAS teaching and advising awards.

2025-01-28 - A community program called Le Cercle Francophone – meaning the French Speaking Circle – has seen growing success since it was started by Aurore Mroz and Florence Mathieu last fall.

2024-12-19 - Classics professor Antony Augoustakis recently gave a keynote lecture at the prestigious Academy of Athens.

2024-12-09 - Four students are pursuing new opportunities this academic year, with the help of the Frances E. Smith Scheidel Scholarship.

2024-12-09 - Countless studies have been done on the importance of a quality education—but not everyone has the same access to those key learning spaces. Pamela Cappas-Toro (PhD, ’13, Spanish) is part of a team that’s trying to change that through the Utah Prison Education Project.

2024-12-04 - The University Library is helping professors develop open access textbooks that students can use free of charge through grant funding from the Illinois State Library and the provost’s office.

2024-11-21 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics will be bringing an expert on intercultural communication to campus this spring as part of the Intercultural Competence Initiative.

2024-11-04 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has announced that Jon Solomon, a professor of classics and the Robert D. Novak Chair of Western Civilization & Culture, will give the 2025 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on March 4.

2024-10-31 - A newly minted PhD classics scholar has been selected to be part of the College of LAS Public Humanities Fellow program, which gives post-doctoral researchers the opportunity to pursue a public engagement project with the Humanities Research Institute.

2024-10-21 - Listening to people with Parkinson’s disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30% more accurate, according to initial findings from the Speech Accessibility Project. Speech recordings used in the study are freely available to organizations looking to improve their voice recognition devices.

2024-10-04 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics welcomed twenty new faculty members this fall.

2024-09-30 - When it comes to understanding language acquisition, there are few scholars as renowned as Silvina Montrul.