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.
2018-10-03 - That winky-face emoji that you use at the end of a text isn’t just a fun picture added to your sentence. It can convey linguistic meaning that changes the interpretation of the sentence, a new study finds. University of Illinois researchers studied the brain wave patterns of people reading...
2018-10-03 - Movie fans and scholars alike will soon be able to visualize an entangled network of Indian film stars, the history of Indian cinema, and the trajectory of Bollywood as it shot towards mainstream fame with an interface professor Rini Mehta is developing through a fellowship with the National Center...
2018-10-02 - Vincent Cervantes, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, researches and writes on the topics of Latin American cultural studies, critical theory, performance studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. He received a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Comparative...
2018-09-14 - Jeffrey Green is a visiting assistant professor in psycho/neurolinguistics in the Department of Linguistics. He directs the Electrophysiology and Language Processing Lab. Green received a PhD from the University of Maryland earlier this year. His main areas of research are sentence processing and...