2020-06-05
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Ms. Asiya Ikhsanova, a graduate student in Comparative and World Literature, is the recipient of the 2020 Douglas Kibbee award.
The Douglas A. Kibbee Prize was created by the colleagues, friends, and students of Professor Kibbee, Professor Emeritus of French and Italian, in honor of his distinguished academic career and service as the first Director of the School. It is awarded...
2020-05-26 - Dov Weiss, Associate Professor of Religion, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer grant for his book project “Rabbinic Inferno: Hell and Salvation in Classical Judaism”. Weiss said that his forthcoming book, Rabbinic Inferno, will be the first scholarly work on afterlife retribution in the rabbinic era (70-700 CE)...
2020-05-21 - Valeria Sobol, Associate Professor and Head of Slavic Languages and Literatures, was recently awarded the prize for the Best Article in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture (2018-19) from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. She received the award for her article, “’Tis Eighty Years Since:...
2020-05-20 - Four teachers from the SLCL were among those honored recently for excellence in teaching, mentoring and advising, collectively known as Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction. The four are: Brian Walters, Associate Professor of Classics; Dr. Eman Saadah, Director and Language Coordinator of Arabic, Department of Linguistics; Teresa Greppi, Teaching Assistant,...
2020-05-05 - SLCL faculty and graduate students swept this year’s recently announced IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) Prizes for Research in the Humanities in their respective categories. At the faculty level, the winner was François Proulx, Associate Professor of French and Italian, for “Bourget, the Chambige Affair, and the Queer Seductions of the Novel...
2020-05-05 - Dulcinea Muñoz-Gómez, Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, was having a successful semester in Barcelona with a group of Illinois and University of California students when the global pandemic halted the program. “Everything was going great: the classes, the courses, the extracurricular activities, field trips,” she said. “...
2020-05-01 - Five of the seven professors recently named IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) Faculty Fellows for 2020-21 are from the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics. One SLCL student also was named a Graduate Student Fellow for 2020-21. The professors and their projects are as follows: Waïl S. Hassan, Comparative and World Literature / English: “Arab Brazil:...
2020-04-14 - Dr. Honaida Ahyad, Lecturer in Linguistics and Translation Studies, is one of only four recipients of an IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) Summer Faculty Research Fellowship for 2020. Dr. Ahyad said she will be working on a project with three components: translating a Makkan Arabic Chick Lit novel titled “half cooked”; a research paper titled “...
2020-04-14 - Carolyn Fornoff, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded an IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) Summer Faculty Research Fellowship for 2020. She was one of only four recipients of this fellowship. Professor Fornoff will be working on a chapter on climate change and indigenous futurity which is part of her book in-progress, “...
2020-04-13 - Although Alicia Barbas, a senior at U of I, grew up in Crystal Lake, Ill., she often traveled to Spain where most of her family lives from year to year. Having grown up speaking Spanish (both parents are high school Spanish teachers), she came to campus with the intention to double major in Spanish and French. She studied French in high school and was exposed to Spanish literature from a young...
2020-04-03 - Carolyn Fornoff, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded the inaugural Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Summer Faculty Research Fellowship. Professor Mariselle Meléndez, Head of Spanish and Portuguese, announced that Professor Fornoff is one of the two faculty fellows chosen this first year. She will be working on a chapter on climate...
2020-03-27 - I’m standing on the edge of a high-rise in the middle of a city. I can hear the car horns, feel the traffic below and—just a few feet away—see the spiraling girder that’s my destination. Summoning my courage, I leap—and miss, plummeting rapidly towards the ground. Instead of making impact, however, I merely stumble embarrassingly across a patch of green foam as I take off my...
2020-03-26 - Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Assistant Professor of Classics, has published a new book titled Other Natures (University of California Press) that reveals how ancient texts are relevant to today’s relationships between humans and their environment. In Other Natures, Bosak-Schroeder assesses how ancient Greek ethnographies—descriptions of other peoples—provide unique...
2020-03-18 - In accordance with the University's mandate, the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics will cancel all face-to-face courses by March 13, 2020. Classes will be taught via various online platforms starting as early as March 23 (please consult with your instructors). All talks, colloquia and large meetings are cancelled until further notice. See useful links for University and...
2020-03-18 - March 15, 2020 Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, Last night, Chancellor Robert J. Jones and Vice Chancellor Andreas C. Cangellaris forwarded the email they shared with deans, directors and department heads (https://massmail.illinois.edu/massmail/2064109.html) regarding the University’s remote work policy for ...