2023-03-16
- Professor Valeria Sobol from the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures has been selected as the recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
2023-03-14 - The College of LAS recently recognized 14 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and an advisor as the recipients of the 2023 teaching and advising awards, including Katie VanDyne, a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
2023-03-10 - Mara Wade, professor emerita in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, was recently recognized by the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) for her digital project, Emblematica Online.
2023-03-08 - Classics professor Antony Augoustakis co-organized a major international conference earlier this year, bringing together scholars from around the globe.
2023-03-02 - The Humanities Research Institute has awarded its annual faculty and graduate student fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from the campus for the 2023–24 academic year. One faculty member and two graduate students from SLCL were among the recipients.
2023-02-27 - Childhood is a key time when it comes to maintaining a heritage language. A new book by Spanish and linguistics professor Silvina Montrul brings together three such languages—Hindi, Romanian, and Spanish—spoken in the U.S. and demonstrates how heritage speakers can end up driving language change as they try to reconcile their heritage with their environment.
2023-02-24 - Faculty from Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE), the Department of Linguistics, and the Program in Translation and Interpreting Studies are collaborating with the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) to develop an online training program for interpreters for Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings in Illinois schools.
2023-02-22 - The French undergraduate curriculum is set to undergo revisions, with the help of a highly competitive grant. Professor Daniel Nabil Maroun obtained $12,000 in funding from the French Embassy and the FACE Foundation (French-American Cultural Exchange) to develop new courses and rethink what language education looks like in the process.
2023-02-20 - Valerie J. Hoffman, research professor emerita in the Department of Religion, has served at the University of Illinois for more than 39 years. She describes her career and how her field has changed in a post-9/11 world.
2023-02-14 - In a fascinating research project, Rini Mehta, an associate professor of comparative literature and religion at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, is using Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore’s songs to teach computers to recognize the concept of love.
2023-02-10 - The College of LAS has selected 14 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and an advisor as the recipients of the 2023 teaching and advising awards, including two from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics.
2023-02-03 - Spanish alumna Brittney Nadler was recently awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship. Funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard University, the Pickering Fellowship supports individuals who seek careers in the State Department’s Foreign Service.
2023-01-31 - Nine alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences will receive the college’s 2023 annual alumni awards at a celebration in April, including two from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics.
2023-01-23 - Illinois alumna Laura Rodríguez-Romaní (BA, ’10, anthropology, Spanish; ME, ’14) has a passion for bilingual education and literature.
2023-01-06 - It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Bruce Rosenstock, professor of religion and director of graduate studies in the Department of Religion.