2025-12-05 - Learning to communicate across diverse cultures and backgrounds is a crucial skill—and one employers are actively looking for. A new offering from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is helping students develop that skill and learn how to apply it in the workplace.
2025-12-01 - The World Language Teacher Education (WLTE) program is consistently rated as excellent by the state of Illinois—and the teachers it produces are once again being recognized for their exceptional promise.
2025-11-17 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has awarded funding to several faculty members through the Study in a Second Discipline Program, which gives professors time and support to push beyond their primary discipline and cultivate new scholarly tools.
2025-11-12 - Anna Mendoza, a professor of linguistics, was recently featured by the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute for her research focusing on teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and sociolinguistics.
2025-10-20 - Bulgarian language and culture studies are returning to the University of Illinois.
2025-10-15 - George Gasyna, a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the Department of Comparative & World Literature, has been named the new editor of the Slavic and East European Journal.
2025-10-08 - Entering the workforce after graduating can seem daunting, especially when you don’t know what the professional landscape will look like in the next five years. Kelley Francis (BA, ’09, Spanish) is helping students from the Hispanic community prepare to make that jump while keeping an eye on the...
2025-10-01 - A student from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese has been named a recipient of the annual Voyager Scholarship, the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service.
2025-09-29 - David Cooper, professor and head of the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, has been elected president of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).
2025-09-29 - Ten faculty members from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have received promotions.
2025-09-29 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics welcomed nine new faculty members this fall. They join a group of talented faculty who lead externally funded and nationally recognized research projects, author major books and articles, and receive national and international awards and...
Translation and interpreting studies professor designs new course focused on translation and culture2025-09-23 - A professor in the Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies (TIS) has developed a new course that aims to help students critically engage with translation across various media and contexts.
2025-09-19 - Several professors from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics recently received awards from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
2025-09-04 - Richard Tempest, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures, is teaching a fall Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course on “Charismatic Leadership in the Twenty-First Century,” in which he will discuss President Donald Trump, Russian president Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian president Volodymyr...
2025-08-21 - Professor Stephanie Hilger is looking at how 18th century European medical doctors shaped perceptions of “hermaphrodites”—people who were deemed to have non-normative sexual genitalia—through case histories.