News

09/10/2020 - Tricia Thrasher, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of French and Italian, was recently named a Duolingo Research Grant Awardee for 2020. This year, Duolingo, a free science-based language...

09/03/2020 - Elena Delgado, Professor of Spanish and Director of the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, has been named a 2020-21 President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP) Fellow by UI...

08/24/2020 - The following sites have up-to-date information about Illinois’ COVID-related plans and resources.  For campus-wide information for students, parents, faculty and staff:...

08/21/2020 - Two students majoring or minoring within SLCL spent this summer using LAS Life + Career Design scholarships that help fund unpaid or underpaid student internship opportunities. Thomas...

08/17/2020 - A new initiative based in the University of Illinois Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies aims to develop more effective partnerships based in culturally and linguistically sensitive...

07/30/2020 - David Cooper, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has been selected as an NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Application) Faculty Fellow for 2020-21 for his project "...

07/20/2020 - Laurie Johnson, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, will be joining the SLCL administrative team as Interim Associate Director (2020-21). Professor Johnson is an expert on eighteenth-...

07/15/2020 -   Three professors from the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics are among the six from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences that have been named 2020 Conrad Humanities Scholars....

06/18/2020 -   The SLCL Dissertation Completion awards for 2020 were awarded to the following graduate students:     •             Asiya Ikhsanova (CWL): “Oral Hygiene in Film, Literature, and Advertisement...

06/18/2020 -       Eider Etxebarria-Zuluaga, a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded the prestigious NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research...

06/10/2020 - During spring semester, Professor George Gasyna assigned the students in his Comparative and World Literature course, “Literature and Ideas,” to submit an essay about a current cultural myth. It’s...

06/05/2020 -     Ms. Asiya Ikhsanova, a graduate student in Comparative and World Literature, is the recipient of the 2020 Douglas Kibbee award. The Douglas A. Kibbee Prize was created by the colleagues,...

06/05/2020 -       For the first time since the award was created, The Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award has gone to a team: Ellen Lindsey (Office Manager, CWL and Religion), Dee Ann Bates (OM...

05/26/2020 -       Dov Weiss, Associate Professor of Religion, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer grant for his book project “Rabbinic Inferno: Hell and...

05/21/2020 -             Valeria Sobol, Associate Professor and Head of Slavic Languages and Literatures, was recently awarded the prize for the Best Article in the field of Ukrainian history, politics,...