07/16/2019 - Anna María Escobar, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, is the recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS...
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07/16/2019 - Eduardo Ledesma, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, is the recipient of a Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar award beginning in 2019-2020 and continuing through 2023-2024. The award...
06/27/2019 - {Ryan Shosted, Associate Professor of Linguistics, was recently interviewed for an article about immigrants to the US who speak indigenous languages. As part of his commitment to public...
06/27/2019 - Harriet Murav, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Comparative and World Literature, has been named the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies....
06/25/2019 - Three SLCL graduates are among 13 U of I students or young alumni/ae who have accepted student Fulbright grants to pursue international educational, research and teaching experiences across the globe...
06/17/2019 - Professor Eric Calderwood's book, Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture (Harvard University Press, 2018), has been translated into Spanish. Calderwood is an...
06/12/2019 - Antony Augoustakis, Professor of Classics, has been named a University Scholar for 2019-22. The University Scholars program aims to recognize outstanding members of the faculty and to provide each...
06/12/2019 - Ryan Mills, a 2019 graduate with a BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures, has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study critical languages during...
05/29/2019 - Rini Mehta, Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature, and Religion, Mehta has been named a Faculty Fellow for 2019-2020 by The National Center for...
05/29/2019 - It was 2017 when Eric P. Whitaker first met Hassana Alidou. They came from opposite sides of the world, but they had common ground: Whitaker, then acting deputy assistant secretary of state for...
05/29/2019 - Carolyn Fornoff of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese is one of five assistant professors from across the U of I campus selected to participate in the 2019-2020 National Center for Faculty...
05/22/2019 - The May 2019 SLCL Convocation ceremony took place in Foellinger Auditorium on Saturday, May 11. The featured speaker was Harriet Murav, from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the...
05/17/2019 - “Spanish in the Community,” a 200-level course begun in 2005, will this fall become the first General Education (“Gen ED”) course the U of I will offer in a language other than English. In the fall...
05/10/2019 - The Department of Classics at Illinois has received from LAS alumnus George Reveliotis an endowment commitment of $1.5 million, one of the largest gifts...
04/24/2019 - Vincent Cervantes, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, was recently awarded the competitive Criticism & Interpretive Theory Junior Research Fellowship for 2019-2021, from the Unit for...
