2021-01-08
- Eduardo Ledesma, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship. He was named along with Bobby Smith II, Professor of African American studies.
“Congratulations to professors Ledesma and Smith on their...
2020-12-17 - An “SLCL Social Gathering” was held via Zoom on Wednesday, Dec. 16, to celebrate the ending of a (challenging) semester and the beginning of the holiday season. Elena Delgado, Director of the SLCL, was emcee for the event, which included all department heads, staff, and faculty. New faculty and staff were asked to introduce themselves: who they were, their field of expertise, but also one...
2020-12-14 - Harriet Murav, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Comparative and World Literature, has received an honorable mention from the MLA (Modern Language Association) Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for...
2020-12-11 - When Eda Derhemi, a teaching professor in the Department of French and Italian, read the Albanian novel “Miele sul Coltello,” she thought that translating its complex linguistic stratification into Italian would be particularly challenging but stimulating. It turned into a collaborative, award-winning effort between the professor and a graduate student. The popular World War II-era novel by...
2020-11-30 - Aida Talić, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, has been recommended by the selection committee of the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for an appointment as a Fellow in the Center during the 2021-2022 academic year. Her appointment is pending approval from the U of I Board of Trustees at its next meeting, in January. Talić’s project is titled “The syntax and tone of Dholuo.” Her project...
2020-11-19 - Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Assistant Professor of Classics, has been recommended by the selection committee of the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for an appointment as a Fellow in the Center during the 2021-2022 academic year. Her appointment is pending approval from the U of I Board of Trustees at its next meeting, in January. The appointment includes one semester of release time. During the year...
2020-11-17 - The School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics is offering a unique learning opportunity in the form of the Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) for Winter 2021. Classes in Winter 2021 will be held online. Courses are held daily for two weeks (except Saturday and Sunday), from Monday, Jan. 4, through Friday, Jan. 15, for three hours a day. They are...
2020-11-13 - Students have found French 156, "Exploring Paris," to be an engaging class to allow them to explore a treasured foreign city from their own home. This possibly difficult feat has been successful because of Felisa Vergara Reynolds, Assistant Professor of French and Italian, who has created her own unique course curriculum that interests students without ever needing to see Paris up close. This...
2020-11-05 - Dr. Florencia Henshaw, Director of Advanced Spanish for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). Her term will begin on January 1. The AATSP is a language-specific professional association in the United States devoted to the study and teaching of Hispanic, Luso-...
2020-10-23 - Eda Derhemi (Teaching Associate Professor, French and Italian) and Francesco Ferrari (PhD candidate, French and Italian) recently received an important translation award....
2020-10-15 - We invite you to participate in some of the events featuring SLCL faculty and alumni/ae in celebration of the impact of the College of LAS. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Monday, October 26... LAS Innovation Learn about life-changing research conducted through the College of LAS. Events & activities: Preparing Students...
2020-10-13 - Emeritus Professor of Classics David Sansone has published a new commentary on Plato's Menexenus by Cambridge University Press. Here Plato challenges his readers by depicting an elderly Socrates as an enthusiastic student of rhetoric who has learned...
2020-10-08 - Waïl S. Hassan, Professor of Comparative and World Literature, has published a new book, co-edited with Rogério Lima, titled Literatura e (i)migração no Brasil/Literature and (Im)migration in Brazil (Edições Makunaima: Rio de Janeiro). The fruit of a multi-year collaboration between the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) and the Brazilian Comparative Literature...
2020-10-06 - Starting in January 2021, Jung Wook Pyo, a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC), will serve as a tenure-track assistant professor of Korean language at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) at the Presidio of Monterey, Calif. DLIFLC offers year-round instruction in 16 foreign languages. Pyo will teach various...
2020-09-30 - Jacopo Demarinis, one of our Spanish minors and an intern for Immigration Services of Champaign-Urbana (ISCU) during the spring 2020 semester, received the Student Leadership Award, one of the C-U Immigration Forum Welcome Awards, at the awards ceremony and celebration held on Sept. 19. “Jacopo was an outstanding example of what we hope to see in this new generation of students who really...