03/23/2023 - The home of the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics officially has a new name. The Foreign Languages Building (FLB) is now the Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building (LCLB).
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03/16/2023 - Professor Valeria Sobol from the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures has been selected as the recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
03/14/2023 - The College of LAS recently recognized 14 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and an advisor as the recipients of the 2023 teaching and advising awards, including Katie VanDyne, a graduate...
03/10/2023 - Mara Wade, professor emerita in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, was recently recognized by the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) for her digital project, Emblematica...
03/08/2023 - Classics professor Antony Augoustakis co-organized a major international conference earlier this year, bringing together scholars from around the globe. In partnership with Radboud University and...
03/02/2023 - The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual faculty and graduate student fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students...
02/27/2023 - Childhood is a key time when it comes to maintaining a heritage language. A new book by Spanish and linguistics professor Silvina Montrul brings together three such languages—Hindi, Romanian, and...
02/24/2023 - Faculty from Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE), the Department of Linguistics, and the Program in Translation and Interpreting Studies are collaborating with the Illinois...
02/22/2023 - The French undergraduate curriculum is set to undergo revisions, with the help of a highly competitive grant. Professor Daniel Nabil Maroun obtained $12,000 in funding from the French Embassy and the...
02/20/2023 - Valerie J. Hoffman, research professor emerita in the Department of Religion, has served at the University of Illinois for more than 39 years. She’s gone...
02/14/2023 - In a fascinating research project, Rini Mehta, an associate professor of comparative literature and religion at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, is using Bengali polymath Rabindranath...
02/10/2023 - The College of LAS has selected 14 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and an advisor as the recipients of the 2023 teaching and advising awards, including two from the School of Literatures,...
02/03/2023 - Spanish alumna Brittney Nadler was recently awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship. Funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard University, the Pickering...
01/31/2023 - Nine alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences will receive the college’s 2023 annual alumni awards at a celebration in April, including two from the School of Literatures, Cultures...
01/23/2023 - Illinois alumna Laura Rodríguez-Romaní (BA, ’10, anthropology, Spanish; ME, ’14) has a passion for bilingual education and literature. As the curator and...
