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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...- 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),...
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...
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...
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...