2025-09-29
- Ten faculty members from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have received promotions.
2025-09-29 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics welcomed nine new faculty members this fall. They join a group of talented faculty who lead externally funded and nationally recognized research projects, author major books and articles, and receive national and international awards and fellowships for their scholarship, service, and teaching.
Translation and interpreting studies professor designs new course focused on translation and culture2025-09-23 - A professor in the Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies (TIS) has developed a new course that aims to help students critically engage with translation across various media and contexts.
2025-09-19 - Several professors from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics recently received awards from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
2025-09-04 - Richard Tempest, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures, is teaching a fall Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course on “Charismatic Leadership in the Twenty-First Century,” in which he will discuss President Donald Trump, Russian president Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and others. He talked with News Bureau arts and humanities editor Jodi Heckel.
2025-08-21 - Professor Stephanie Hilger is looking at how 18th century European medical doctors shaped perceptions of “hermaphrodites”—people who were deemed to have non-normative sexual genitalia—through case histories.
2025-07-16 - Silvina Montrul has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2025-2026 for Brazil. Montrul is a professor in the Departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics and the Marjorie Roberts Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
2025-07-02 - The Italian Basic Language Program has been awarded a grant by the Italian Ministry of Culture for the second year in a row.
2025-06-16 - Three faculty members from SLCL have received Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement, and Education (BRIDGE) Seed Fund Grants for the 2025-26 academic year.
2025-06-03 - Anke Pinkert, professor and head of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, recently published “Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest” (University of Chicago Press).
2025-06-03 - Ilaria Strocchia, a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese specializing in Spanish literatures and cultures, recently won first place in The Graduate College and the Media Common of the University Library 2025 Image of Research competition.
2025-05-13 - This spring marked the end of an era for linguistics professor James Yoon. After 15 years, his tenure as head of the Department of Linguistics has concluded.
2025-05-07 - A major classics conference was held at the University of Illinois this semester. More than 400 people came together for the 121st Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), which spanned four days in late March.
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.