2020-06-10 - During spring semester, Professor George Gasyna assigned the students in his Comparative and World Literature course, “Literature and Ideas,” to submit an essay about a current cultural myth. It’s not the first time Gasyna has asked his students in this course (CWL 202) to address cultural myth, a...
2020-06-05 - For the first time since the award was created, The Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award has gone to a team: Ellen Lindsey (Office Manager, CWL and Religion), Dee Ann Bates (OM Linguistics), Katie Walker (Spanish and SLATE) and Jessica Smith (Classics, Translation...
2020-06-05 - Ms. Asiya Ikhsanova, a graduate student in Comparative and World Literature, is the recipient of the 2020 Douglas Kibbee award. The Douglas A. Kibbee Prize was created by the colleagues, friends, and students of Professor Kibbee, Professor Emeritus of French and Italian, in honor...
2020-05-26 - Dov Weiss, Associate Professor of Religion, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer grant for his book project “Rabbinic Inferno: Hell and Salvation in Classical Judaism”. Weiss said that his forthcoming book, Rabbinic...
2020-05-21 - Valeria Sobol, Associate Professor and Head of Slavic Languages and Literatures, was recently awarded the prize for the Best Article in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture (2018-19) from the American Association...
2020-05-20 - Four teachers from the SLCL were among those honored recently for excellence in teaching, mentoring and advising, collectively known as Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction. The four are: Brian Walters, Associate Professor of Classics; Dr. Eman Saadah, Director and...
2020-05-05 - SLCL faculty and graduate students swept this year’s recently announced IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) Prizes for Research in the Humanities in their respective categories. At the faculty level, the winner was François Proulx, Associate...
2020-05-05 - Dulcinea Muñoz-Gómez, Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, was having a successful semester in Barcelona with a group of Illinois and University of California students when the global pandemic halted the program. “Everything was...
2020-05-01 - Five of the seven professors recently named IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) Faculty Fellows for 2020-21 are from the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics. One SLCL student also was named a Graduate Student Fellow for 2020-21. The professors and their...
2020-04-14 - Dr. Honaida Ahyad, Lecturer in Linguistics and Translation Studies, is one of only four recipients of an IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) Summer Faculty Research Fellowship for 2020. Dr. Ahyad said she will be working on a project with three components...
2020-04-14 - Carolyn Fornoff, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded an IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) Summer Faculty Research Fellowship for 2020. She was one of only four recipients of this fellowship. Professor Fornoff will be working...
2020-04-13 - Although Alicia Barbas, a senior at U of I, grew up in Crystal Lake, Ill., she often traveled to Spain where most of her family lives from year to year. Having grown up speaking Spanish (both parents are high school Spanish teachers), she came to campus with the intention to double major in...
2020-04-03 - Carolyn Fornoff, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded the inaugural Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Summer Faculty Research Fellowship. Professor Mariselle Meléndez, Head of Spanish and Portuguese, announced that Professor Fornoff is one...
2020-03-27 - I’m standing on the edge of a high-rise in the middle of a city. I can hear the car horns, feel the traffic below and—just a few feet away—see the spiraling girder that’s my destination. Summoning my courage, I leap—and miss, plummeting rapidly towards the ground. Instead of making...
2020-03-26 - Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Assistant Professor of Classics, has published a new book titled Other Natures (University of California Press) that reveals how ancient texts are relevant to today’s relationships between humans and their environment. In Other Natures,...