2025-04-23
- Eduardo Ledesma, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Spanish professor, examined how experimental filmmakers in Latin America and Spain use alternative film formats in his new book “Expanding Cinemas.”
2025-04-21 - This spring, students from the Department of French & Italian helped select the winner of the U.S. Goncourt Prize Selection for a second year in a row.
2025-04-16 - A graduate student from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese has received First Prize in the 2025 Image of Research competition held annually by the Graduate College and the Media Commons of the University Library. Ilaria Strocchia received the top prize of $500 for her...
2025-04-09 - An annual survey of recent graduates reports that 90% of LAS alumni who graduated during the 2023-2024 period secured their first destination within six months of graduating.
2025-04-09 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is pleased to present the SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship awardees for this year.
2025-04-04 - Several faculty members from SLCL have been named Research Prize winners and Summer Faculty Fellows by the Humanities Research Institute (HRI). 2024–25 Humanities Research Prize RecipientsEach year, HRI recognizes excellence in humanities scholarship with awards given at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. They will be celebrating the winners at the...
2025-03-12 - Waïl Hassan, professor and head of the Department of Comparative & World Literature, has been elected second vice president of the Modern Language Association, the largest national scholarly organization in literary studies.
2025-03-06 - The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from the campus for the 2025–26 academic year.
2025-02-10 - The National Herald, the paper of record for the Greek Diaspora community, recently highlighted the Department of Classics on the front page of their Greek Language Edition.
2025-02-06 - A professor and a graduate teaching assistant from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have been selected as recipients of the 2025 College of LAS teaching and advising awards.
2025-01-28 - A community program called Le Cercle Francophone – meaning the French Speaking Circle – has seen growing success since it was started by Aurore Mroz and Florence Mathieu last fall.
2024-12-19 - Classics professor Antony Augoustakis recently gave a keynote lecture at the prestigious Academy of Athens.
2024-12-09 - Four students are pursuing new opportunities this academic year, with the help of the Frances E. Smith Scheidel Scholarship.
2024-12-09 - Countless studies have been done on the importance of a quality education—but not everyone has the same access to those key learning spaces. Pamela Cappas-Toro (PhD, ’13, Spanish) is part of a team that’s trying to change that through the Utah Prison Education Project.
2024-12-04 - The University Library is helping professors develop open access textbooks that students can use free of charge through grant funding from the Illinois State Library and the provost’s office.