Pierpaolo Spagnolo, PhD Candidate in Italian and Medieval Studies, is no stranger to the Newberry Library’s scholarly programs, but Friday February 12, 2021 was the first time that he moderated one of the roundtable discussions of the Newberry's prestigious Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference.
Following three introductory...
Italian Cultural Events, Spring 2021And our Italian cultural events are off to a great start! We look forward to seeing all of you at our Caffettino Italian conversation hours, and our Cineforum Italian film roundtables.
Caffettino cultural event information: https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/1940?eventId=33402227
Cineforum cultural event information: https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/1940?eventId=33402235
Please contact apt2@illinois.edu for Zoom information.
SPRING 2021FR 207: Writing and Grammar Workshop
SPRING 2021ITAL 310: Advanced Grammar
SPRING 2021FR 576: Outsiders Looking In / Insiders Looking Out: Novels Written by French / not French authors
SPRING 2021FR 485: Commercial French
SPRING 2021FR 213: French Phonetics
SPRING 2021FR 501: Reading French for Grads
SPRING 2021FR 319: Survey of Francophone Literature: Literature from the Former French Colonies
SPRING 2021FR 578: Marcel Proust
Soon after Mouna Benbouazza graduated with a Master of Arts in French from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018, she quickly found herself overseeing communications at an international think tank. She worked in Brussels, the very heart of the European Union, on important issues such as climate change, trade cooperation, and technology. Her favorite task? Writing! An MA in...
Please join one of our former students and now Associate Professor of French at Christopher Newport University, Virginia, Michael Mulryan (PhD in French Studies, 2009), at his lecture titled “How to Publish Rather than Perish in the American Liberal Arts College: Making Connections, Maintaining Continuity, and Understanding University Culture” on February 9th, from 4-5pm, CT (5-6 ET) on...
More Department News
- Despite the pandemic, the French & Italian department partook once again in the Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) at UIUC. Although online, three of our very own teaching assistants reported success from their courses this past winter. They were able to create...
- On Friday January 22, the French and Italian Basic Language Programs started their last day of pre-semester orientation with a discussion with Assistant Dean of Students Anne Marie Morgan from the Office of the Dean (LAS). Dean Morgan presented a lecture followed by a Q&A on resources and best...
- As this semester comes to an end, we wish everybody a restful and joyful break. Happy holidays to all those who celebrate this winter. We will see you all next semester, in 2021! Happy New Year!
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Highlighted Courses
FR 322"Les Années noires (1940-44) and their aftermath" Les Années noires (1940-1944) and their aftermath in film, literature, memoirs and documents such as photography. The Vichy regime ; Everyday life in Paris during the Nazi Occupation ; Collaboration and Resistance ; the Holocaust...
FR 336Survey of French cultural history from the French Revolution to 1968. Taught in French. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/7YNR61ndKH0.jpg?itok=tUlL4gsE","video_url":"https://youtu.be/7YNR61ndKH0","settings":{"responsive":...
FR 324"Images of Reality, Reality of Images."
ITAL 420ITAL 420 Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
ITAL 240FA19 ITAL 240 Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant
FR 529FR 529 Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance course
FR 212Introduction to concepts of and debates on French national identity. Materials are drawn from a multiplicity of media and from many spheres of modern life in France: political, artistic, the everyday, etc. Identification of major resources for the study of culture and analysis of diverse cultural...
