2018-10-30
- Six professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named Conrad Humanities Scholars, and three of them come from the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, including Melissa Bowles, Associate Professor Spanish and Portuguese.
Bowles’ interest in language began as a young child. Though her own parents only spoke English, her introduction to Spanish from Cuban...
2018-10-30 - Six professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named Conrad Humanities Scholars, and three of them come from the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, including Anke Pinkert, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Pinkert saw the collapse of Eastern European socialism as a young adult living in East Berlin 30 years ago. Ever since, she...
2018-10-28 - The Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) is a unique learning opportunity offered during the summer and winter breaks. Open to everyone! Classes meet Monday through Friday, except holidays. Taught by advanced graduate students or faculty. Courses focus on conversational skills, travel preparation and language survival skills. There is minimal homework, no attendance policy...
2018-10-12 - The Center for Language Instruction and Coordination (CLIC) cordially invites submissions to the LANGUAGE TEACHING SHARE FAIR to be held on Friday, November 2, from 4:00-6:00 pm, in Lucy Ellis Lounge. We welcome submissions from all areas of language teaching (any level, any topic), including but not limited to: ideas for in-class activities, tips to engage students in active learning, ways of...
2018-10-12 - Congratulations to Camille Meritan and Kailu Guan for being selected as the recipients of the Fall 2018 CLIC Student Travel Grant!! Camille attended the Pronunciation in Second Language Teaching and Learning conference in September, and Kailu will be attending the ACTFL Convention in November.
2018-10-03 - That winky-face emoji that you use at the end of a text isn’t just a fun picture added to your sentence. It can convey linguistic meaning that changes the interpretation of the sentence, a new study finds. University of Illinois researchers studied the brain wave patterns of people reading sentences paired with emojis. Sometimes the emojis matched the literal meaning of the sentence, but in...
2018-10-03 - Movie fans and scholars alike will soon be able to visualize an entangled network of Indian film stars, the history of Indian cinema, and the trajectory of Bollywood as it shot towards mainstream fame with an interface professor Rini Mehta is developing through a fellowship with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. India’s star-centric and dynasty-heavy movie scene, where entire...
2018-10-02 - Vincent Cervantes, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, researches and writes on the topics of Latin American cultural studies, critical theory, performance studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. He received a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Doctoral Program at the University of Southern California. He also...
2018-09-14 - Jeffrey Green is a visiting assistant professor in psycho/neurolinguistics in the Department of Linguistics. He directs the Electrophysiology and Language Processing Lab. Green received a PhD from the University of Maryland earlier this year. His main areas of research are sentence processing and syntax. He is also interested in pragmatics, semantics, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd language acquisition....
2018-09-13 - Luisa-Elena Delgado, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, is one of five University of Illinois professors at the Urbana-Champaign campus that have been named University Scholars in recognition of their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. They were honored on Sept. 13 at a ceremony held at the iHotel and Conference Center in Champaign. Professor Delgado is an internationally...
2018-09-13 - Spanish Advisor Tasha Robles received the “University Advisor of the Year” award by the Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha, Inc. This national award recognizes those university advisors that help undergraduate chapters of the sorority on their respective campuses nationwide. “I was honored to have been nominated, let alone receive the award,” said Robles. “However, to me the best reward was seeing...
2018-09-06 - Since graduating with a B.A. in French in 1991 (and being on the Bronze Tablet - Joy Nevin), I have earned a Master’s degree in French, an Illinois French teaching certificate, a French D.A.L.F. certificate, and I have become an ATA certified French translator and a Realtor®. I have had the privilege of teaching students French for seven years and then working as a French linguist...
2018-09-06 - Marissa Barlaz, who completed a Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2018, is the new Linguistic Data Analytics Manager for the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics. In her new position, Barlaz is available to support any new or ongoing research projects in the analysis stage. She’s also available for consultations regarding what analysis methods to use for a specific research question,...
2018-09-06 - Brett Kaufman, Assistant Professor in the Department of the Classics, was awarded a grant by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under their International Cooperation and Exchange Project. The award is for his project entitled "Remote Sensing Identification and Modern Health Risks of Ancient Metallurgical Pollution," which endeavors to develop a global applied...