2025-09-04 - Richard Tempest, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures, is teaching a fall Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course on “Charismatic Leadership in the Twenty-First Century,” in which he will discuss President Donald Trump, Russian president Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian president Volodymyr...
2025-08-21 - Professor Stephanie Hilger is looking at how 18th century European medical doctors shaped perceptions of “hermaphrodites”—people who were deemed to have non-normative sexual genitalia—through case histories.
2025-07-16 - Silvina Montrul has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2025-2026 for Brazil. Montrul is a professor in the Departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics and the Marjorie Roberts Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
2025-07-02 - The Italian Basic Language Program has been awarded a grant by the Italian Ministry of Culture for the second year in a row.
2025-06-16 - Three faculty members from SLCL have received Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement, and Education (BRIDGE) Seed Fund Grants for the 2025-26 academic year.
2025-06-03 - Anke Pinkert, professor and head of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, recently published “Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest” (University of Chicago Press).
2025-06-03 - Ilaria Strocchia, a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese specializing in Spanish literatures and cultures, recently won first place in The Graduate College and the Media Common of the University Library 2025 Image of Research competition.
2025-05-13 - This spring marked the end of an era for linguistics professor James Yoon. After 15 years, his tenure as head of the Department of Linguistics has concluded.
2025-05-07 - A major classics conference was held at the University of Illinois this semester. More than 400 people came together for the 121st Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), which spanned four days in late March.
2025-05-06 - What is empathy—and why does it matter in the 21st century? That was the question intercultural communication expert Carolyn Calloway-Thomas addressed in her spring talk, “Cultivating Intercultural Communication Competence: Learning What It Is Like to Live by Someone Else’s Light,” hosted by the...
2025-04-30 - The humanities play a critical role in helping us better understand the world—and each other. That was one of the key messages four SLCL students and faculty members shared with members of Congress as part of Humanities Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. this spring.
2025-04-30 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is pleased to present this year's diversity, service, and academic awardees.
2025-04-24 - A professor in the Department of Linguistics has been selected for not only the 2025 LAS Award for in Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, but also for the campus level award: the 2025 Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
2025-04-23 - Eduardo Ledesma, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Spanish professor, examined how experimental filmmakers in Latin America and Spain use alternative film formats in his new book “Expanding Cinemas.”
2025-04-21 - This spring, students from the Department of French & Italian helped select the winner of the U.S. Goncourt Prize Selection for a second year in a row.