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...
2018-09-06 - The President of Iceland recently conferred the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon on Professor Emerita Marianne Kalinke for her research, scholarship, and teaching of medieval Icelandic literature. President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, who also is the Grand Master of the Order of the Falcon, conferred the honor upon Kalinke, CAS (Center for Advanced Study) Professor and Trowbridge...- 2018-05-24 - Mara Wade, a Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, has been awarded a Getty Residential Scholar Grant. The scholarship allows Wade to spend the 2018 fall semester at the Getty Research Institute working on her book “The Politics of Culture:...
- 2018-05-24 - Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Assistant Professor of Religion, has published a new book titled Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal (Oxford University Press). This new work (out April 2) is the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), one of Nepal’s best-known and most-heard/listened to narrative...
- 2018-05-24 - Two students in Professor François Proulx’s French cultural history course chose hands-on learning when the Department of French and Italian brought to the FLB a photo exhibit about the May 1968 French student and labor protests. Lauren Longfellow, a senior from Mahomet, Ill., helped Proulx with the set-up and take-down of the exhibit, entitled “Au cœur de Mai 68” (“At the Heart of May 68”),...
2018-05-24 - Antony Augoustakis, Professor of Classics, has co-edited (with Stacie Raucci of Union College) a new book titled “Epic Heroes on Screen” (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). This is the first collection to look at the most recent manifestations of the ancient hero on screen. It brings together an array of perspectives on twenty-first century cinematic representations of ancient world heroes...
2018-05-24 - Anke Pinkert, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, is one of three recipients of an IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) New Horizons Summer Faculty Research Fellowship for 2018. Pinkert’s research project is titled, “Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest and Assembly.” Her areas of research include Modern German culture, literature, and...
2018-05-24 - Lilya Kaganovsky, Director and Professor of Comparative and World Literature, and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has published “The Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1928-1935” (Indiana University Press, 2018). As cinema industries around the globe adjusted to the introduction of synch-sound technology, the Soviet Union was also shifting culturally,...