2020-03-09
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In April Brian Walters, Assistant Professor of Classics, will receive both the distinguished and highly competitive 2019-20 LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Walters is one of five UIUC professors to receive the LAS Dean’s Award for...
2020-02-27 - Randall Sadler, Associate Professor of Linguistics, is co-editor of a forthcoming book on using games to teach English as a Second Language. Sadler’s co-editor and numerous contributors are graduates of Illinois’ MATESL program. Titled...
2020-02-20 - Javier Irigoyen-García, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been selected as an inaugural LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar. This is a new recognition created by the College in which the LAS Executive Committee in reviewing faculty members considered for promotion from Associate to Full Professor, “identified those with outstanding records to be recipients of this...
2020-02-17 - Two graduate teaching assistants in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Teresa Greppi and Cristina Mostacero Pinilla, have been recognized with the 2019-2020 LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants. Mariselle Meléndez, Professor and Head of Spanish and Portuguese commented, “This is a very competitive award given to the most outstanding graduate...
2020-02-05 - The Department of the Classics has received an estate gift of $750,000 from alumna Barbara Wallach (MA, ’70; PhD, ’74, classics) an emerita associate professor of classical studies at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. The estate gift will be used for undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships, as well as a name professorship...
2020-01-28 - A new exhibition at Krannert Art Museum (KAM) will be visible to the public 24/7. “Hive,” combining two 18-foot-tall inflatable sculptures and an immersive sound installation, will be on view for the coming year in the glass-enclosed entrance to the Kinkead Pavilion, 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign. The project’s co-curators are Amy L. Powell of KAM and Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Assistant...
2020-01-17 - In December Richard Tempest, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, published a new book, Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Fictive Worlds (Academic Press), the first full-length study of the entire corpus of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s prose...
2020-01-17 - Jazmine Summerville is the new Office Support Associate on the second floor of the FLB. She comes to the SLCL from Jefferson Middle School in Champaign, where for the past seven years she has been a Teacher’s Assistant. Jazmine earned a B.A. in English from Lewis University. She enjoys reading and likes to write poetry. Her favorite authors include Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and James...
2020-01-17 - The National Endowment for the Arts announced on Jan. 16 that Armine Kotin Mortimer, Professor Emerita of French and Italian, and Research Professor of French Literature, will receive a Literature Translation Fellowship of $12,500. The fellowship will support the translation from the French...
2019-12-12 - Indian cinema has exploded in popularity in recent years, but few understand the phenomenon more than Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, professor of comparative literature and religion, and National Center for Supercomputing...
2019-12-06 - Mara Wade, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, will become the 41st president of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) in April. The Renaissance Society of America is the largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Founded in 1954, the RSA has approximately 5,000 members around the country and the world. Professor Wade has been attending...
2019-12-04 - Vincent Cervantes, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been named the recipient of the 2019 LEAP Award (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors). The competitive LEAP award was created as a way to foster excellence and recognize the impact assistant professors have in the College of LAS. It is granted to faculty early in their career based on scholarly productivity and...
2019-11-21 - Dr. Florencia Henshaw of the Department Spanish and Portuguese, has been been named a recipient of the 2019 LAS Academic Professional Award. She also has been selected as one of the six members of the Editorial Advisory Board for "The Language Educator," a publication of the American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Regarding the Academic Professional Award, Mariselle...
2019-11-18 - Professor Eric Calderwood’s book, Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture (Harvard University Press 2018) has received the following awards and recognitions: Colonial al-Andalus won the L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize, awarded annually to the outstanding book in the area of North African Studies. The award is announced here:...
2019-11-14 - Students in Professor Dan Leon’s Intermediate Ancient Greek class recently got hands-on experience by making paper from papyrus, using the same traditional method developed in ancient Egypt and employed throughout Greek antiquity. Graduate students and faculty from Classics—including, Leon noted with a smile, “one interloper from Linguistics”—helped cut the reeds into strips, which then soaked...