Happy New Year and Welcome to Spring 2022!
Orientation in our French and Italian Basic Language Programs included two workshops on Thursday and Friday January 13 and 14 on strategies and tips on teaching grammar in the basic language sequence and actively engaging students in diverse and inclusive classrooms. The grammar workshop featured Professors Laura Hill and Amy Clay, Directors of the...
SPRING 2022 FR 319: Francophone Worlds: Survey of Francophone Literature
Spring 2022 ITAL 220: Contemporary Italian, Oral and Written
Spring 2022 FR 529: Contact varieties of French and Romance
Spring 2022 FR 211: Introduction to Literary Studies
Spring 2022 FR 543: Gender, Race and Modernity
Spring 2022 FR 207: Writing and Grammar WorkshopSpring 2022 FR 207: Writing and Grammar Workshop
Spring 2022 FR 212: Introduction to Cultural Analysis: French Identities
Spring 2022 FR 336: French Cultural History 1789-1968
Spring 2022 ITAL 440: Modern Italian Novel
Spring 2022 FR 205: Oral French
Congratulations to Professor Emerita Evelyne Accad on the publication of her bilingual collection of short stories: “La Maison de la Tendresse: Nouvelles sur les femmes libanaises/House of Tenderness: Short stories on Lebanese women” (L’Harmattan, 2021)....
Congratulations to Professor Felisa Vergara Reynolds whose book "The Author as Cannibal: Rewriting in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre, 1969–1995" has just been released in its paper and electronic editions by Nebraska University Press. The book situates Francophone authors engaged in an exercise of rewriting narratives from the colonial literary canon within Francophone studies,...
More Department News
- Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Jean-Philippe Mathy for the publication of his new book: “Chronic Aftershock: How 9/11 Shaped Present-Day France” (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021). Among the many...
- The Graduate Student Association of French and Italian, a registered student association at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be hosting a Photo Contest fundraiser this fall semester of 2021! All students and faculty are welcome to submit personal photos featuring Italy,...
- Tricia Thrasher wins Dissertation Support Grant from Network of Modern Language Teacher AssociationsCongratulations to Tricia Thrasher, PhD candidate in French SLATE, for receiving a Dissertation Support Grant from the Network of Modern Language Teacher Associations (NFMLTA) to work on her dissertation titled: Saying ‘Au Revoir’ to Anxiety in a Heartbeat: The benefits of Virtual...
Calendar
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...
