A new faculty member in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures is introducing a new generation of students to Bulgarian language, history, and culture.

The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics will host a convocation ceremony for graduating students this May. This year's speaker is Jessica Nicholas (MA, '12; PhD, '18; French linguistics).

The Humanities Research Institute has awarded its annual faculty and graduate student fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from campus for the 2026-27 academic year, including several from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics.

A multi-disciplinary team of faculty researchers from the University of Illinois has been awarded a Sawyer Seminar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to study the challenges to democracy and academic freedom confronting US universities now.

Three professors and a graduate student from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have been recognized by campus and the College of LAS for their exceptional commitment to teaching and advising.

Two students from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese have been named Humanities in Action scholars by We CU and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI).

Miguel Ángel Galindo (MA, ’91, Spanish; PhD, ’97, Spanish) and Nerea Muguerza (MA, ’98, Spanish), longtime resident directors of the Illinois in Granada program in Granada, Spain, recently returned to the University of Illinois for their first visit in a decade.

Comparative and world literature professor Waïl Hassan’s book "Arab Brazil: Fictions of Ternary Orientalism" (Oxford University Press, 2024) has received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association.

A student from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese is combining her culture with her love for science with the help of the Frances E. Smith Scheidel Scholarship.

Fifty years ago, Carol Fisher Saller stepped foot on the University of Illinois campus for the first time as an incoming freshman—and the first woman in her family to attend a university.