2023-04-21
- For his years of support and efforts at promoting the Department of Religion at Illinois, Doug Hoffman (BA ’75, religious studies) is being honored with the 2023 LAS Distinguished Service Award.
2023-04-21 - When you look at a résumé like T. Markus Funk’s (BA, '91, Germanic languages and literatures; BS, '92, business administration), there’s one thing you’ll likely notice right off the bat: the variety. That wide-ranging career has earned him many awards and recognitions over the years, including the 2023 LAS Alumni Achievement Award.
2023-04-18 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is pleased to announce the 2023-24 Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which provide advanced doctoral students with an academic year of support to complete their dissertations.
2023-04-07 - Two faculty members from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have received a Prize for Research in the Humanities from the Humanities Research Institute. These prizes recognize outstanding humanities research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The recipients will be honored at the Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception on Thursday, May 4, 4:00 p....
2023-03-29 - An annual study of recent alumni reports that 94 percent of LAS alumni who graduated during the 2021-2022 period secured a first destination within six months of commencement.
2023-03-23 - The home of the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics officially has a new name. The Foreign Languages Building (FLB) is now the Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building (LCLB).
2023-03-16 - 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.
2023-03-14 - 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.
2023-03-10 - 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...
2023-03-08 - 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 in the United Kingdom, Augoustakis co-organized...
2023-03-02 - 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 2023–24 academic year. HRI said there will be no research theme for the year;...
2023-02-27 - 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 they try to reconcile their heritage with their environment.
2023-02-24 - Faculty from Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE), the Department of Linguistics, and the Program in Translation and Interpreting Studies are collaborating with the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) to develop an online training program for interpreters for Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings in Illinois schools.
2023-02-22 - The French undergraduate curriculum is set to undergo revisions, with the help of a highly competitive grant. Professor Daniel Nabil Maroun obtained $12,000 in funding from the French Embassy and the FACE Foundation (French-American Cultural Exchange) to develop new courses and rethink what language education looks like in the process.
2023-02-20 - Valerie J. Hoffman, research professor emerita in the Department of Religion, has served at the University of Illinois for more than 39 years. She’s gone from convincing the university that a position in Islamic studies was necessary to being greeted as a star by persecuted Muslims in Africa. She describes her career and how her field has changed...