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...
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...