2021-05-12
- Carmen Gallegos of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese has been awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for AY 2021-2022. This competitive, campus-level award will allow Carmen to complete her dissertation project, “Quantifying Amazonia: Ecocritical fictions during and beyond the rubber boom in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil (19th-21st centuries),” which she is writing...
2021-05-05 - Manuel Fernandez, Adriana Guevara, and Johana Machuca of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Riley Masterson of the Department of French and Italian recently received 2021-22 Scheidel Award Scholarships. Fernandez is a sophomore majoring in Astronomy and Spanish. Guevara is a senior majoring in Spanish & Interdisciplinary Health Science. Machuca is a senior majoring in Speech and...
2021-04-22 - Charlotte Prieu of French and Italian and Sophie Luijten of Spanish and Portuguese recently were among those UIUC students honored in this year’s 9th Annual Diversity & Social Justice Education Social Justice Awards. Prieu was named in the Outstanding Graduate category and Luijten in the Outstanding Undergraduate classification. Prieu is a third-year PhD candidate in French Linguistics....
2021-04-21 - Kolten Conklen, a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from Sterling, Illinois, is among 16 students nationally awarded the Beinecke Scholarship. Valued at $34,000, the Beinecke award supports graduate study in the arts, humanities or social sciences. Illinois is one of 135 colleges and universities annually invited to...
2021-04-19 - Lilya Kaganovsky, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has received an NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Stipend for her project, “Fifty Years of Soviet Women’s Cinema, 1929–1979,” which examines the largely invisible role women filmmakers played in the...
2021-04-12 - Kara Warburton, Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies, has published a new book titled The Corporate Terminologist, published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company. The Corporate Terminologist is the first monograph that addresses the principles and methods for managing terminology in content production environments that are demanding and multilingual....
2021-03-30 - LeiAnna X. Hamel, a Ph.D candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, has been awarded a Graduate Student Fellowship from the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) of UIUC for the 2021-22 academic year. Her research project is titled “Undisciplined Bodies: Deviant Female Sexuality in Russian and Yiddish Literatures, 1877-1929." Hamel analyzes the depiction of female bodies and eroticism in...
2021-03-26 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics has announced the students who have been awarded the 2021-2022 SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships. The executive committee that made the awards expressed their admiration at the range and intellectual depth of the students’ projects. Congratulations to all of them and to their respective advisors and teachers. This year's awardees are...
2021-03-18 - SLCL teachers winning awards for excellence in instruction is an annual occurrence, and this year is no exception. Tania Ionin, Professor of Linguistics, received the Campus Award for Excellence in Instruction in the faculty category for graduate and professional teaching. Ryan Shosted, Professor of Linguistics, received the LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, as well as...
2021-03-12 - Brady Hughes is the new Academic Advisor for Spanish. He advises Spanish majors and minors on program requirements, opportunities on campus, and more. Brady also works on student recruitment and increasing the Department of Spanish and Portuguese's online presence...
2021-03-04 - Three SLCL professors and one doctoral student have won HRI (Humanities Research Institute) Fellowships for the 2021–22 academic year, with projects that address the theme “Symptoms of Crisis”. They are among seven faculty members and seven graduates to be honored this year. The recipients include: John Levi Barnard...
2021-02-26 - Vanderbilt University Press has published a new paperback version of Professor Mariselle Meléndez’s work, Deviant and Useful Citizens: The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru. Deviant and Useful Citizens explores the conditions of women and perceptions of the female body in the eighteenth century throughout the Viceroyalty of Peru, which until 1776...
2021-02-18 - Antony Augoustakis, Professor of Classics, is the co-author (with Neil W. Bernstein of Ohio University) of a new work that offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus’ epic Punica. Titled Silius Italicus' Punica: Rome’s War with Hannibal, the book is available for pre-order and will begin shipping on March 2. Composed in the first...
2021-01-28 - Melanie Waters, Director of Introductory Spanish Language for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is one of three persons selected by an awards committee to receive the LAS (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences) Academic Professional Award. The recognition comes with a $1,000 award and a $1,000 salary increment supported by donations from LAS alumni. During Melanie’s time with the...
2021-01-25 - Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Assistant Professor of Classics, has been appointed a CAS (Center for Advanced Study) Beckman Fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year. CAS Beckman Fellows are untenured U of I faculty members whose proposals are selected in an annual competition. These appointments grant one semester of teaching release time to pursue an individual scholarly or creative project. With the...