2020-03-18 - In accordance with the University's mandate, the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics will cancel all face-to-face courses by March 13, 2020. Classes will be taught via various online platforms starting as early as March 23 (please consult with your instructors). All talks,...
2020-03-18 - March 15, 2020 Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, Last night, Chancellor Robert J. Jones and Vice Chancellor Andreas C. Cangellaris forwarded the email they shared with deans, directors and department heads (https://massmail....
2020-03-09 - In April Brian Walters, Assistant Professor of Classics, will receive both the distinguished and highly competitive 2019-20 LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Campus Award for Excellence in...
2020-02-27 - Randall Sadler, Associate Professor of Linguistics, is co-editor of a forthcoming book on using games to teach English as a Second Language. Sadler’s co-editor and numerous...
2020-02-20 - Javier Irigoyen-García, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been selected as an inaugural LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar. This is a new recognition created by the College in which the LAS Executive Committee in reviewing faculty members considered for promotion from...
2020-02-17 - Two graduate teaching assistants in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Teresa Greppi and Cristina Mostacero Pinilla, have been recognized with the 2019-2020 LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants. Mariselle Meléndez, Professor and Head of...
2020-02-05 - The Department of the Classics has received an estate gift of $750,000 from alumna Barbara Wallach (MA, ’70; PhD, ’74, classics) an emerita associate professor of classical studies at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. The estate gift...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...