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,...
2018-12-12 - Thousands of letters written by Marcel Proust (1871-1922) will be available to scholars, Proust fans and the public on a website created by University of Illinois researchers and their partners in France to digitize Proust’s correspondence. The first phase of the...
2018-11-14 - Clara Bosak-Schroeder of the Department of the Classics is among U of I six assistant professors that have been recognized as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their contributions and potential in teaching and research. The LEAP Award is granted to faculty early in...
2018-11-14 - Professor Xun Yan of the Department of Linguistics is among U of I six assistant professors that have been recognized as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their contributions and potential in teaching and research. The LEAP Award is granted to faculty early in their...
2018-11-14 - The U of I remains one of the top destinations for international students and scholars studying in the United States, according to the annual Open Doors report. Released on Nov. 13 by the Institute of International Education, the report ranks Illinois as second in the nation by international...
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 Eric Calderwood, Associate Professor of Comparative and World Literature. Calderwood defines his...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.