2020-10-06 - Starting in January 2021, Jung Wook Pyo, a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC), will serve as a tenure-track assistant professor of Korean language at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) at the Presidio of Monterey...
2020-09-30 - Jacopo Demarinis, one of our Spanish minors and an intern for Immigration Services of Champaign-Urbana (ISCU) during the spring 2020 semester, received the Student Leadership Award, one of the C-U Immigration Forum Welcome Awards, at the awards ceremony and celebration held on Sept. 19. “...
2020-09-24 - Born in Seoul, South Korea, Myoung-Sun Song spent three years as a child in Virginia. That’s where she had a life-changing moment: She listened to Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise.” “I was still learning English at that time, so I could not understand the lyrics,” Song said. “But the beat was enough...
2020-09-22 - As a national correspondent for ESPN, Michele Steele (BA, '00, economics) is at home whether she is on the sidelines during a Monday night NFL game or behind the anchor desk on SportsCenter. Based in Chicago, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences alumna has...
2020-09-17 - George Reveliotis (BA 1996) is the recipient of the distinguished LAS Dean's Quadrangle Award for 2020. George Reveliotis is the founder and managing partner in...
2020-09-10 - Tricia Thrasher, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of French and Italian, was recently named a Duolingo Research Grant Awardee for 2020. This year, Duolingo, a free science-based language education platform, introduced the Duolingo Research Grant program to “support the next generation of...
SLCL Director Dr. Elena Delgado named Fellow for 2020-21 UI President’s Executive Leadership Program2020-09-03 - Elena Delgado, Professor of Spanish and Director of the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, has been named a 2020-21 President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP) Fellow by UI President Tim Killeen. Professor Delgado is one of only 16 persons selected as fellows from the university...
2020-08-24 - The following sites have up-to-date information about Illinois’ COVID-related plans and resources. For campus-wide information for students, parents, faculty and staff: University COVID-19 Information For information...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...