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.

Learning to communicate across diverse cultures and backgrounds is a crucial skill—and one employers are actively looking for. A new offering from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is helping students develop that skill and learn how to apply it in the workplace.

The Intensive Language Instruction Program (ILIP) returned for a second year this summer, following its relaunch in 2024. This time, some students didn’t even have to leave their homes—or their countries—to reach their language learning goals, thanks to new online offerings.

The World Language Teacher Education (WLTE) program is consistently rated as excellent by the state of Illinois—and the teachers it produces are once again being recognized for their exceptional promise.

Anna Mendoza, a professor of linguistics, was recently featured by the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute for her research focusing on teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and sociolinguistics.

A student from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese has been named a recipient of the annual Voyager Scholarship, the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service.

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has awarded funding to several faculty members through the Study in a Second Discipline Program, which gives professors time and support to push beyond their primary discipline and cultivate new scholarly tools.