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...
2019-10-10 - It’s a vivid memory: At an open-air taverna in a small coastal town in Greece last summer, Alex Augustynski, junior in classics, made his acquaintance with a friendly black and white cat with green eyes and a deformed leg. Alex had spotted the female cat in Korfos, a remote port town where they had docked during an academic program. She was waiting beside the boat the next day when he woke up,...
2019-10-02 - Professor Eric Calderwood’s book, “Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture” (Harvard University Press 2018), has been awarded the 2019 L. Carl Brown American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Book Prize in North African Studies. Established in 2013, the L. Carl Brown Book Prize is awarded annually to the outstanding book in the area of North African...
2019-09-24 - Yolopattli Hernández-Torres (Ph.D., Spanish, 2010) was recently featured in the Champaign News-Gazette as part of a series titled “University of Illinois 150 Years and Belong: Students and faculty who’ve gone on to interesting things.” “How I miss our library,” Hernández-Torres (Ph.D. ’10, Spanish literature and cultures) says from Baltimore, where she’s an associate professor of...
2019-09-20 - We have followed with great concern the recent revelations regarding the actions of former employee Gary Xu...As head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC), and Director of the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics (SLCL), respectively, we want to express our condemnation of abuses of power, wherever they may occur, and our full support of victims of abuse who...- 2019-09-20 - Dear Faculty, students, staff members: We have followed with great concern the recent revelations regarding the actions of former employee Gary Xu. As head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC), and Director of the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics (SLCL), respectively, we want to express our condemnation of abuses of power, wherever they may occur, and our...
2019-09-13 - David Cooper, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has been selected as a Conrad Humanities Scholar for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) for 2019-2024. The Conrad Humanities Scholar designation was created to recognize those mid-career scholars with the highest potential for continued achievement in the humanities field, and to help Illinois retain these...
2019-09-10 - Professor Mariselle Meléndez was selected by University of Illinois President Timothy Killeen to be part of the President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP) Fellows (2019). PELP is a unique professional development program designed to broaden participants’ understanding of higher education issues and to strengthen their leadership skills related to overseeing a public institution at the...
2019-09-09 - François Proulx, Professor of French and Italian, is a recipient of the 2019 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award and a 2019-2020 Helen Corley Petit Scholar award. The Campus Distinguished Promotion Award is a special recognition based on the scope, quality and impact of a faculty member’s scholarship, teaching, service and engagement efforts. Eleven scholars across the Illinois campus received...
2019-08-30 - Adam Newman is a new Lecturer in Religion. He received his PhD in 2019 from the University of Virginia. His research interests include Hinduism, the religious and political history of South Asia, Sanskrit literature, Purāṇas, sacred space and landscape, and religious conceptions of the body. During the fall semester here at Illinois, Dr. Newman is teaching “Asian Mythology” and “Hindu Epics”.
2019-08-28 - John Levi Barnard is a new Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature. His research interests include American Literature and Culture, African American Literature and Culture, and Environmental Humanities. He is the author of “Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture” (Oxford University Press, 2017):...
2019-08-28 - Maria Hadji (Hadjipolycarpou) is a new Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. Before coming to Illinois she taught at Columbia University (2014-2017) and at The City University of New York, Queens College (2017-2019). Her research interests include Mediterranean Studies, Modern Greek Studies, Island Studies, Autobiography,...
2019-08-23 - Even before Janani Comar was enrolled in an eight-year-long Medical Scientist Training Program in New York City, she said she had her doubts about whether she’d finish the curriculum. Of course, that was in retrospect, as in May of this year she completed her Master’s Degree in Religion at Illinois prior to accepting an offer from the University of Toronto to enroll this fall in its Doctor of...
2019-07-17 - Two University of Illinois undergraduates who are minoring in Arabic, Enddy Almonord and Barghav Sivaguru, are among 244 students nationwide awarded David L. Boren Scholarships, with a third Illinois student named an alternate. Enddy Almonord, of Champaign, a 2018 graduate of Central High School, received $20,000 to continue her study of Arabic for eight months at Qasid Institute in Amman,...