2018-09-13 - Luisa-Elena Delgado, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, is one of five University of Illinois professors at the Urbana-Champaign campus that have been named University Scholars in recognition of their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. They were honored on Sept. 13 at a ceremony...
2018-09-13 - Spanish Advisor Tasha Robles received the “University Advisor of the Year” award by the Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha, Inc. This national award recognizes those university advisors that help undergraduate chapters of the sorority on their respective campuses nationwide. “I was honored to have...
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...
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...
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...
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...- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
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...
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...
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...