2019-03-08 - The Summer Arabic Language Program for High School Students recently learned that it has received a grant from the Qatar Foundation International. The grant will allow the program to provide scholarships to qualified students. These scholarships will cover a portion or even the entire cost of the...
2019-03-08 - U of I students Ziheng Yin and Madina Azamova did something a little different in the summer of 2018: they took classes in Turkey. Ziheng had taken Elementary Turkish with Dr. Ayse Ozcan, Director of the Turkish Program in the Department of Linguistics. During Ozcan’s online teaching year from...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 “...
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,...