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...
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...
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 $...
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...
2021-01-22 - Aida Talić, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, has been appointed a CAS (Center for Advanced Study) Beckman Fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year. CAS Beckman Fellows are untenured University of Illinois faculty members whose proposals are selected in an annual competition. These appointments...
2021-01-11 - Zong-qi Cai, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, is the recipient of the Distinguished Editor Award, the highest honor given by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Cai received the award at the online Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention held on Saturday, Jan. 9. The...
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,...
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...
2020-12-14 - Harriet Murav, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Comparative and World Literature, has received an honorable mention from the...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...