2020-08-24
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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...
2020-06-05 - 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...