2022-03-21
- Hadi Umayra’s (MA ’18, translation and interpreting studies) life doesn’t look much like it did a decade ago, but there’s been one constant throughout the years: his passion for language and translation.
2022-03-17 - It’s no secret that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus is a big one, comprised of more than 50,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. Not long ago, Arnoldo Ayala and Alexandra van Doren were two faces among thousands on campus, but they were by no means small fish in a big pond.
2022-03-10 - An annual study of the early career paths of recent University of Illinois graduates reveals that new alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences remain successful in finding jobs and other first destinations.
2022-03-08 - The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Provost is honoring three SLCL faculty members for their service to campus and devotion to student learning.
2022-03-02 - The Humanities Research Institute has announced its annual faculty and graduate student fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year. Two SLCL students and one faculty member were among this year’s recipients.
2022-03-01 - For more than 150 years Chinese students have traveled to the U.S. seeking higher education. The Seetoo family has followed that tradition for nearly as long.- 2022-02-25 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics joins our colleagues in the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures in their condemnation of the military assault on Ukraine.
2022-02-18 - The College of LAS has selected winners of this year's teaching and advising awards, including four SLCL faculty members and graduate students.
2022-02-18 - French & Italian professor Zsuzsanna Fagyal and electrical & computer engineering professor Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, affiliate faculty in the Department of Linguistics, have been awarded an $800,000 grant to help make automatic speech recognition systems more inclusive.
2022-02-10 - Laurie Johnson, professor of Germanic languages and literatures, is the new director of the Campus Honors Program (CHP).
2022-02-08 - LAS International Programs and the Department of Classics are overseeing a new study abroad program starting in the fall, Illinois in Athens. The program centers on a humanities and social sciences curriculum tailored for a truly immersive study abroad experience and offers a limited number of for-credit internship opportunities.
2022-02-08 - The following is a column written by Brett Ashley Kaplan for the Feb. 3, 2022, News-Gazette, reprinted with permission from the News-Gazette and edited for style. Kaplan is director of graduate studies, director of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies in the Program in Jewish Culture & Society, and a professor of comparative literature at the...
2022-02-04 - Jeeyoung Ha, director of the Korean language program for the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, has been selected by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences awards committee to receive the LAS Academic Professional Award.
2022-01-28 - The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, edited by Spanish & Portuguese and linguistics professor Silvina Montrul, together with University of Maryland professor Maria Polinsky is now available.
2022-01-25 - Classics professor Antony Augoustakis has just published an edited collection of essays called Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City.