2023-10-16
- Leonard Cornell McKinnis II and Alexia Williams, professors of religion and African American studies, join religious scholars across the country in recognizing the strength of the Black Church in history—and its role in helping Black people gain an identity—but they’re also working to widen the narrative.
2023-10-13 - More than a year after Russia's invasion in Ukraine, the impacts of the war continue, including in the sphere of higher education. PhD student Brian Yang experienced one of those impacts first-hand in the summer of 2022 when he found his original study abroad plans were no longer possible.
2023-10-10 - A master's student in Spanish has been named one of only two winners of the 2023 Graduate Student Leadership Award.
2023-10-06 - Speaking out about community violence, trauma, and injustice is never easy, but it’s especially daunting when you’re a teenager. This spring, classics professor Angeliki Tzanetou gave high school students in Champaign-Urbana a platform to come together and discuss the impact of these issues.
2023-10-03 - Faculty and students in the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics—and across campus—are celebrating the life and work of two late faculty members.
2023-09-26 - Anna Hunt, a professor in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, has been selected to participate in the Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate Program, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
2023-09-21 - The College of LAS has named six faculty members as recipients of two named professorship positions. That list includes professors Silvina Montrul and Harriet Murav, who both received Marjorie Roberts Professorships in Liberal Arts & Sciences.
2023-09-12 - The Foreign Language Teacher Education program has been rated exemplary by the Illinois State Board of Education.
2023-08-31 - Two faculty members from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have received promotions.
2023-08-25 - Jazmine Summerville wears many hats as an office manager for the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics. After working for three years on campus, she knows that helping someone’s day run smoothly is a gratifying reward for a job well done.
2023-08-22 - Nineteen faculty members have accepted new leadership positions in departments and other academic units within the College of LAS for the 2023-24 academic year, including several in the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics.
2023-08-11 - Known as the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, Ann Thayer Weldy (BA, ’54, French) helped readers find comfort—and themselves—in her books.
2023-07-26 - What happens when urban art becomes literally a global invasion? That’s the question addressed by Julie Gaillard, professor of French, who has been tracking the work and significance of a secretive, anonymous artist who has created pixelated characters from a 1970s video game and placed them around the world—and even beyond this world.
2023-07-19 - There are things we’ve trained to do, and then there are the things we change for. John Levi Barnard, professor of English and comparative and world literature, describes how his scholarship and teaching is adding perspective to current crises.
2023-07-12 - Russian president Vladimir Putin weathered a recent insurrection by the Wagner mercenary group, but the crisis has damaged his standing, said professor of Slavic languages and literatures Richard Tempest.