2025-05-06
- What is empathy—and why does it matter in the 21st century? That was the question intercultural communication expert Carolyn Calloway-Thomas addressed in her spring talk, “Cultivating Intercultural Communication Competence: Learning What It Is Like to Live by Someone Else’s Light,” hosted by the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics as part of the Intercultural Competence Initiative.
2025-04-30 - The humanities play a critical role in helping us better understand the world—and each other. That was one of the key messages four SLCL students and faculty members shared with members of Congress as part of Humanities Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. this spring.
2025-04-30 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is pleased to present this year's diversity, service, and academic awardees.
2025-04-24 - A professor in the Department of Linguistics has been selected for not only the 2025 LAS Award for in Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, but also for the campus level award: the 2025 Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
2025-04-23 - Eduardo Ledesma, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Spanish professor, examined how experimental filmmakers in Latin America and Spain use alternative film formats in his new book “Expanding Cinemas.”
2025-04-21 - This spring, students from the Department of French & Italian helped select the winner of the U.S. Goncourt Prize Selection for a second year in a row.
2025-04-16 - A graduate student from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese has received First Prize in the 2025 Image of Research competition held annually by the Graduate College and the Media Commons of the University Library. Ilaria Strocchia received the top prize of $500 for her...
2025-04-09 - An annual survey of recent graduates reports that 90% of LAS alumni who graduated during the 2023-2024 period secured their first destination within six months of graduating.
2025-04-09 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is pleased to present the SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship awardees for this year.
2025-04-04 - Several faculty members from SLCL have been named Research Prize winners and Summer Faculty Fellows by the Humanities Research Institute (HRI). 2024–25 Humanities Research Prize RecipientsEach year, HRI recognizes excellence in humanities scholarship with awards given at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. They will be celebrating the winners at the...
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.
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.