2023-10-06
- Speaking out about community violence, trauma, and injustice is never easy, but it’s especially daunting when you’re a teenager. This spring, classics professor Angeliki Tzanetou gave high school students in Champaign-Urbana a platform to come together and discuss the impact of these issues.
2023-10-03 - Faculty and students in the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics—and across campus—are celebrating the life and work of two late faculty members.
2023-09-26 - Anna Hunt, a professor in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, has been selected to participate in the Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate Program, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
2023-09-21 - The College of LAS has named six faculty members as recipients of two named professorship positions. That list includes professors Silvina Montrul and Harriet Murav, who both received Marjorie Roberts Professorships in Liberal Arts & Sciences. The professorship is named for the late Marjorie Roberts, from the University of Illinois Class of 1923. Upon her death, she left part of...
2023-09-12 - The Foreign Language Teacher Education program has been rated exemplary by the Illinois State Board of Education. This is the highest rating offered in ISBE’s report card for teacher education programs. Each program is evaluated along four metrics: candidate selection, knowledge and skills for teaching, performance as classroom teachers, and contribution to state needs. FLTE’s overall rating...
2023-08-31 - Two faculty members from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have received promotions. The College of LAS announced 32 faculty promotions to take effect during the fall semester. The promotions include 15 faculty members who were promoted from associate professor to professor; 13 who were promoted from assistant professor to associate professor; and four who received...
2023-08-25 - Jazmine Summerville wears many hats as an office manager for the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics. After working for three years on campus, she knows that helping someone’s day run smoothly is a gratifying reward for a job well done.
2023-08-22 - Nineteen faculty members have accepted new leadership positions in departments and other academic units within the College of LAS for the 2023-24 academic year, including several in the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics.
2023-08-11 - Known as the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, Ann Thayer Weldy (BA, ’54, French) helped readers find comfort—and themselves—in her books.
2023-07-26 - What happens when urban art becomes literally a global invasion? That’s the question addressed by Julie Gaillard, professor of French, who has been tracking the work and significance of a secretive, anonymous artist who has created pixelated characters from a 1970s video game and placed them around the world—and even beyond this world. “What...
2023-07-19 - There are things we’ve trained to do, and then there are the things we change for. John Levi Barnard, professor of English and comparative and world literature, describes how his scholarship and teaching is adding perspective to current crises.
2023-07-12 - Russian president Vladimir Putin weathered a recent insurrection by the Wagner mercenary group, but the crisis has damaged his standing, said professor of Slavic languages and literatures Richard Tempest.
2023-07-03 - The recent riots in France have raised questions about French police’s "larger purpose" in the country, stated Daniel Nabil Maroun, a professor in the Department of French & Italian, on FRANCE 24, the French state-owned international news television network based in Paris.
2023-06-23 - Three students from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have received 2022-23 Frances E. Smith Scheidel Scholarships.
2023-06-15 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has awarded funding to six teams of faculty and staff to advance innovative ideas that aim to improve student experiences, including one from the Department of Linguistics.