François Proulx (FRIT), Caroline Szylowicz (Rare Book & Manuscript Library) and Françoise Leriche (Université Grenoble Alpes) presented the Corr-Proust project at the New York Public Library on February 14, 2019.
Fall 2019ITAL 156 Exploring Rome
Fall 2019FR 529 Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance
Fall 2019ITAL 240 Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant
Illinois researchers have created a website to make thousands of letters written by Marcel Proust available to the public. Caroline Szylowicz, the Kolb-Proust librarian and a curator of rare books and manuscripts, and Francois Proulx, a professor of French, are experts in Proust’s correspondence. They partnered on the project with two French institutions, Universite Grenoble Alpes and the Institute for Modern Texts and Manuscripts.
More Department News
- Amelia Reggi, a current European Union Center FLAS fellow, has recently been named a Fulbright Award finalist for the English Teaching Assistant Program to teach English in Italy.
- Asura Louise Osborne, a 2018 graduate of UIUC with a Minor in Italian, has won the Dante Society of America Prize for an undergraduate essay. Asura wrote her paper, “Time and Movement in Dante’s Comedy”, during the last academic year for ITAL 413, a class she took with Dr. Corey Flack.
- Matthew Schultz is among 5 LAS students who received the honor. A graduate of Prospect High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, he will be learning Turkish in Baku, Azerbaijan. As part of the program, he will live with a host family while taking classes at Azerbaijan University of Languages.
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Highlighted Courses
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
ITAL 156FA19 ITAL 156 Exploring Rome
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.
