2019-02-22
- The Department of Linguistics is proud to announce that a new minor in Turkish Studies was recently approved by the Board of Trustees.
The program aims to introduce students to modern Turkey, and enable students to be able to communicate and read in the authentic language. It requires six hours of advanced level Turkish language courses (for...
2019-02-15 - George Reveliotis (BA, '96, history) is supporting the Department of Classics to strengthen Hellenic studies and classical civilization courses, including the Modern Greek Program. How do you make a difference? It’s not a simple question when you think about it, like George Reveliotis has. He’s in his mid-40s now, with a wife and four children, and he runs his own property tax and real estate...
2019-02-15 - During the fall semester the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures had become one of the beneficiaries of the Robert L. Zarbock Endowment Fund. The late Robert L. Zarbock received his B.A. and M.A. in music from Illinois. According to his biography outlined in the Fund agreement, his mother was of Czech descent, and it is in her honor that Mr. Zarbock established The Mildred P. Zarbock...
2019-01-31 - Lilya Kaganovsky, Professor and Director of the Program in Comparative and World Literature, and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has been appointed as a Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar in recognition of her outstanding achievements in her research and leadership role on campus. Richard Romano (BS...
2019-01-31 - Brett Kaufman, Assistant Professor of Classics, is the co-editor (with Clyde L. Briant of Brown University) of a new volume titled Metallurgical Design and Industry: Prehistory to the Space Age (Springer 2018). The volume examines metallurgical technologies and their place in society throughout the centuries. The authors...
2019-01-31 - Antony Augoustakis, Professor of Classics, has just published a new book on Flavian Campania, published by Oxford University Press, with co-editor Joy Littlewood. Titled Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination, the collection of essays examines various aspects of Campania just before and after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, during the period of the Flavian...
2019-01-15 - Three SLCL professors are among recipients of financial support from the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities for their respective academic projects. Of 14 awards given to 53 applicants from all three of the University of Illinois campuses as a result of this competition, Melissa Bowles, Stephanie Hilger and Rini Mehta were among those whose projects...
2019-01-15 - Mara R. Wade, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, is one of two recipients of the 2018 Reimar Lüst Award. This award is granted to humanities scholars and social scientists from outside Germany who, through their research, have shaped academic and cultural relations between Germany and their own countries. Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in collaboration with the...
2019-01-15 - "During the summer of 2018, I had the privilege of excavating in central inland Tuscany, Italy, at the Poggio Civitate Archaeological Project. Before this time, I had little familiarity with classical archaeology as a discipline, or any type of archaeology, for that matter." "I studied Latin for most of my life and also found a passion for science and medicine. Having been a student of classics...
2019-01-03 - Michael Dann, Assistant Professor of Religion, has been named a Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Fellow for 2019-20, pending Board of Trustees approval. CAS Fellows are untenured U of I faculty members whose proposals are selected in an annual competition. These appointments grant one semester of teaching release time in order to pursue an individual scholarly or creative project....
2019-01-03 - Daniel Leon, Assistant Professor of Classics, has been awarded the prestigious Arnold O. Beckman Research Award for his project "Disability and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia." This award comes with a substantial budget to conduct field work and research in Greece on this fascinating book project. Leon’s main area of research is Greek and Roman historical narrative, particularly as it...
2018-12-12 - Eric Calderwood, Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature, recently received an honorable mention in the William Riley Parker Prize competition for an outstanding article published in PMLA, the association’s journal of literary scholarship. The title of the article is “Franco’s Hajj: Moroccan Pilgrims, Spanish Fascism, and the Unexpected Journeys of Modern Arabic...
2018-12-12 - Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature, and Religion, will be the featured discussant for a showing of Mira Nair’s Mira Nair’s 1991 film, “Mississippi Masala,” at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign (126 W. Church St.) on Tuesday, January 29. The start time is yet to be announced. Visit: http://...
2018-12-12 - Thousands of letters written by Marcel Proust (1871-1922) will be available to scholars, Proust fans and the public on a website created by University of Illinois researchers and their partners in France to digitize Proust’s correspondence. The first phase of the Corr-Proust website – Marcel Proust’s World War I letters – was launched in late...
2018-11-14 - Clara Bosak-Schroeder of the Department of the Classics is among U of I six assistant professors that have been recognized as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their contributions and potential in teaching and research. The LEAP Award is granted to faculty early in their career based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their...