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,...
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...