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...
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...