2024-02-26 - Interpreters play a crucial role in ensuring access to justice and healthcare for all, but there often aren’t enough professionals to fill that need. Hebba Abulsaad (MA ’23, translation and interpreting studies) saw that gap and took it upon herself to help bridge it—all while working to complete...
2024-02-23 - Service isn’t about the recognition you might receive from others; it’s about the impact you could leave on your community. That idea is top of mind for Flor Quiroz, who spends both her summers and her semesters using her language skills to give back.
2024-02-20 - Registration is now open for the Intensive Language Instruction Program (ILIP)—formerly known as the Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program, or IFLIP.
2024-02-13 - John Levi Barnard, a professor in the Department of Comparative & World Literature, has been named a 2024 Conrad Humanities Scholar by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
2024-02-09 - The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has acquired a rare first edition of Plato’s works printed in the Greek language.
2024-01-22 - Anna Mendoza (Linguistics) held a 2023 HRI Summer Faculty Fellowship, during which she worked with a school community liaison who speaks Lingala, French, and English to interview a representative sample of dual immersion parents—about 30 of the approximately 70 families.
2024-01-18 - Two students and a professor from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics were recognized at the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) 2024 meeting in New York City this month.
2024-01-11 - Craig Williams explores links between American Indians and classical languages and literatures.
2023-12-12 - Two manuscripts that played a crucial role in the Czech cultural revival turned out to be forgeries. But their contributions to Czech literature and national culture were real, says Slavic languages and literatures professor David Cooper.
2023-11-16 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics will be offering a new course on intercultural competence in Spring 2024.
2023-11-09 - Spanish and linguistics professor Silvina Montrul recently received two major honors. Her book ...
2023-10-31 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics welcomed more than a dozen new faculty members this fall.
2023-10-27 - Professor Harriet Murav has won a prestigious NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Award for her collaborative translation of “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union.”
2023-10-27 - The Program in Comparative & World Literature (CWL) is now the Department of Comparative & World Literature.
2023-10-25 - Mithilesh Mishra, director of the Hindi and South Asian languages program in the Department of Linguistics, is being honored for his contribution and commitment to Hindi.