2022-12-05 - If you’ve ever stood in front of a room full of people to take part in a debate, you know what a nerve-wracking experience it can be. Now, imagine doing it in another language. That’s the challenge some students are tackling – and surmounting – as part of the Arabic Debate Team at the University of...
2022-11-21 - Florencia Henshaw, director of advanced Spanish in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, has been selected for two prestigious service and teaching awards.
2022-11-21 - Mariselle Meléndez, professor of Spanish and interim associate director of the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, has been chosen by the Office of the Provost to be a 2022-2023 fellow in the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program.
2022-11-14 - The College of LAS is welcoming 38 new professors for the 2022-23 academic year, including several in SLCL.
2022-11-09 - Miscommunication can have serious consequences in any situation, but in a healthcare setting it can become a matter of life or death. That’s why Matthew Ginsberg-Jaeckle (MA, ’15, translation and interpreting studies) is working to improve the way medical interpreters are trained.
2022-11-04 - When new students step foot on campus for the first time, it’s with the knowledge that it’s about to become their home away from home. It’s not always an easy transition, however, especially during a pandemic.
2022-11-01 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is leading a new research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with diverse speech patterns and disabilities.
2022-10-28 - A project focused on anti-Asian rhetoric known as “Yellow Peril” has won a grant from the Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program for 2022-23.
2022-10-24 - Comparative and world literature professor Brett Ashley Kaplan has been selected as a featured author for the Texas Book Festival, which is taking place November 5 and 6 in Austin, Texas.
2022-10-18 - Four professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named 2022 Conrad Humanities Scholars, including Xun Yan, professor of linguistics.
2022-10-07 - Sometimes a good thing doesn’t start with a kickoff gala or groundbreaking ceremony; it starts with a lot of question marks, like the ones surrounding the study of religion at the U of I in the 1970s.
2022-10-04 - With global COVID-19 restrictions easing around the globe, LAS students are once again expanding their vistas, enjoying a wide variety of study abroad programs, from short-term faculty-led courses abroad to semester-long programs with internships and research opportunities.
2022-09-27 - Every year, the Campus Honors Program at the University of Illinois brings together diverse, curious, and engaged students from across campus to create an “overlapping community” of lifelong learners. In recent years, more and more faculty from SLCL have become a part of that effort.
2022-09-23 - When you think about teaching as a profession, a classroom is probably the first image that comes to mind, but some of the most meaningful learning experiences — for both students and teachers — happen outside of that setting.
2022-09-21 - Several new faculty members joined the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics this fall. Their expertise will add to the existing strengths in several of our units and bring valuable perspectives and experiences to the school.