2020-09-24
- Born in Seoul, South Korea, Myoung-Sun Song spent three years as a child in Virginia. That’s where she had a life-changing moment: She listened to Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise.”
“I was still learning English at that time, so I could not understand the lyrics,” Song said. “But the beat was enough because it was unlike any other song I had heard before. From this moment onwards, I became an avid...
2020-09-22 - As a national correspondent for ESPN, Michele Steele (BA, '00, economics) is at home whether she is on the sidelines during a Monday night NFL game or behind the anchor desk on SportsCenter. Based in Chicago, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences alumna has covered some of the biggest stories in sports. Occupation: National correspondent...
2020-09-17 - George Reveliotis (BA 1996) is the recipient of the distinguished LAS Dean's Quadrangle Award for 2020. George Reveliotis is the founder and managing partner in Reveliotis Law, P.C. He has been a strong supporter of the ...
2020-09-10 - Tricia Thrasher, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of French and Italian, was recently named a Duolingo Research Grant Awardee for 2020. This year, Duolingo, a free science-based language education platform, introduced the Duolingo Research Grant program to “support the next generation of language researchers”. Thrasher’s project, “Social Virtual Reality’s Impact on Language Anxiety and...
SLCL Director Dr. Elena Delgado named Fellow for 2020-21 UI President’s Executive Leadership Program2020-09-03 - Elena Delgado, Professor of Spanish and Director of the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, has been named a 2020-21 President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP) Fellow by UI President Tim Killeen. Professor Delgado is one of only 16 persons selected as fellows from the university’s Chicago, Springfield and Urbana-Champaign campuses. “The selection process this year was very...
2020-08-24 - The following sites have up-to-date information about Illinois’ COVID-related plans and resources. For campus-wide information for students, parents, faculty and staff: University COVID-19 Information For information and resources specifically for faculty and staff in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:...
2020-08-21 - Two students majoring or minoring within SLCL spent this summer using LAS Life + Career Design scholarships that help fund unpaid or underpaid student internship opportunities. Thomas Ballard, a junior studying political science, economics, and Spanish. He is developing skills that help him become a better writer, reader, speaker, and listener — all things that are necessary to...
2020-08-17 - A new initiative based in the University of Illinois Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies aims to develop more effective partnerships based in culturally and linguistically sensitive support and collaborations with the Champaign-Urbana Maya community. The Illinois Maya Initiative plans to connect researchers, community social service professionals, and a growing community of Mayan...
2020-07-30 - David Cooper, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has been selected as an NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Application) Faculty Fellow for 2020-21 for his project "Successful forgeries: Analyzing fakelore for oral-formulaic epic poetry characteristics." The NCSA Faculty Fellowship is a competitive program for faculty and researchers at the U of I which provides seed...
2020-07-20 - Laurie Johnson, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, will be joining the SLCL administrative team as Interim Associate Director (2020-21). Professor Johnson is an expert on eighteenth- through twenty-first-century German intellectual history, literature, psychology, philosophy, and visual studies. Her work engages intellectual history in order to make connections across eras and...
2020-07-15 - Three professors from the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics are among the six from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences that have been named 2020 Conrad Humanities Scholars. George Gasyna, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Comparative and World Literature, is being recognized for his research in modern Polish literature and culture. He is an...
2020-06-18 - Eider Etxebarria-Zuluaga, a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded the prestigious NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award (DDRI) for her Dissertation Research: “Subject Expression in Spanish in Contact with Basque and in Spanish-Basque Bilingualism.” The grant will cover her research...
2020-06-18 - The SLCL Dissertation Completion awards for 2020 were awarded to the following graduate students: • Asiya Ikhsanova (CWL): “Oral Hygiene in Film, Literature, and Advertisement in France, the U.S., and the U.S.S.R”. Advisors: Lilya Kaganovsky and Rob Rushing. Recipient, Kibbee Prize for...
2020-06-10 - During spring semester, Professor George Gasyna assigned the students in his Comparative and World Literature course, “Literature and Ideas,” to submit an essay about a current cultural myth. It’s not the first time Gasyna has asked his students in this course (CWL 202) to address cultural myth, a term originating from French philosopher Roland Barthes’ theory on myths arising after World War 2...
2020-06-05 - For the first time since the award was created, The Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award has gone to a team: Ellen Lindsey (Office Manager, CWL and Religion), Dee Ann Bates (OM Linguistics), Katie Walker (Spanish and SLATE) and Jessica Smith (Classics, Translation and Interpreting Studies and Medieval Studies). The nominations stated: "In a time of...