2019-05-29 - It was 2017 when Eric P. Whitaker first met Hassana Alidou. They came from opposite sides of the world, but they had common ground: Whitaker, then acting deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs with 27 years of experience in the U.S. Foreign Service, was about to take on a new role...
2019-05-22 - The May 2019 SLCL Convocation ceremony took place in Foellinger Auditorium on Saturday, May 11. The featured speaker was Harriet Murav, from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Comparative and World Literature. Murav is the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of...
2019-05-17 - “Spanish in the Community,” a 200-level course begun in 2005, will this fall become the first General Education (“Gen ED”) course the U of I will offer in a language other than English. In the fall of 2018, Associate Dean Karen Ritter contacted Spanish and Portuguese department professor and head...
2019-05-10 - The Department of Classics at Illinois has received from LAS alumnus George Reveliotis an endowment commitment of $1.5 million, one of the largest gifts to a humanities program on campus. The George N. Reveliotis Family Hellenic Studies Endowment will...
2019-04-24 - Vincent Cervantes, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, was recently awarded the competitive Criticism & Interpretive Theory Junior Research Fellowship for 2019-2021, from the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. This fellowship support is for his current book in progress, "A...
2019-04-24 - Joyce Tolliver, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Director of the Center for Translation Studies, has received the highly competitive University of Illinois Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award. The Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award recognizes “a faculty member who has provided...
2019-04-22 - Chris Gipson, a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of the Classics was quite ill the opening weekend of spring break in March when he received a life-changing email. The email informed him that he had received the Fowler-Merle-Smith Fellowship from the American School of Classical...
2019-04-08 - Spanish Advisor Tasha Robles has been awarded the Advisor of the Year award by the University of lllinois United Greek Council (UGC). The award is student-originated and all campus advisors are considered for this distinction...
2019-04-08 - Pilar Martinez-Quiroga’s article “La detective Bruna Husky de Rosa Montero: Feminismo, distopía y conciencia cyborg” (Hispania 101.2, 2018, pp. 306–17) was recently nominated as the winning Outstanding Article of this year’s...
2019-04-08 - Professor Hans Hock of the Department of Linguistics has received an Honorary Life Membership from the Societas Linguistica Europaea for his service to the society. He also...
2019-03-29 - Edgar Garbelotto, an MFA candidate in Creative Writing pursuing a Certification in Translation Studies, translated from Portuguese into English a book that was recently reviewed in the New York Times. Garbelotto translated João Gilberto Noll’s novel, Lord, described in the March...
2019-03-25 - Eduardo Ledesma, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, is among 7 faculty members who are recipients of Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) fellowships for the 2019–20 academic year. Ledesma received a fellowship for his project “Blind Cinema: Visually Impaired...
2019-03-25 - Diana Sacilowski, a graduate teaching assistant in Slavic Languages and Literatures, is one of only seven graduate U of I students awarded an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) fellowship for her project, “Strategies of Silence: Representations of Jewish Poles in Polish...
2019-03-19 - Two U of I students from distinct sides of the planet share the same goal after spending 2016-17 in the Year-in-Japan Program: to return to Japan to pursue their future graduate education and careers there. Youyou Zhang of Nanjing, China, a Recreation, Sport and Tourism major, and Blake...
2019-03-11 - When Amber Dunse was seven years old, her visually impaired father shared his braille books with her and her brother. For Amber it was an early immersion into considering people whose needs and perspectives were different. That interest continued in college at University of Wisconsin-River Falls...