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...
2019-11-05 - Charlie Webster, Director of the Center for Language Instruction and Coordination (CLIC), has organized an IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) reading group entitled "The Role of Study Abroad in Higher Education". The group brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the changing role of study abroad within a liberal arts education. Their primary focus...
2019-11-04 - Raquel Goebel, Director of the Portuguese Language Program and Instructor in Portuguese in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is the recipient of “The Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Partnership grant,” which is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and housed at the Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) at Michigan State University. This is a cross-university...
2019-10-24 - Julie Gaillard is a new Assistant Professor of French and Italian. She received a Ph.D. in French, with a certificate in Psychoanalytic Studies, from Emory University. Drawing on literature and literary theory, visual and media culture, critical theory as well as psychoanalytic theory, her research focuses on referentiality as an entry point to engage with issues of fiction and (post)truth,...
2019-10-16 - Inside certain classrooms at the University of Illinois, it's possible to go deep-sea diving to a sunken ship and witness a 100-foot blue whale—all without leaving Champaign County. With virtual reality equipment playing a growing role in classrooms, more and more students are seeing their learning experiences being transformed. Professors in the College of LAS have been implementing virtual...
2019-10-11 - Jordan Stump's translation of The Barefoot Woman, a novel by Scholastique Mukasonga, is among the five finalists for this year's National Book Award in Translated Fiction. The Barefoot Woman is Mukaonga’s second memoir about the Rwandan genocide and focuses on the loss of her mother. A professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who earned a PhD in...