Congratulations to Julie Gaillard, Assistant Professor of French, who was awarded a two-year Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Junior Faculty Fellowship for her project, "Who, We?
FALL 2020FR 156 Exploring Paris
FALL 2020ITAL 210 Practical Review of Italian
FALL 2020FR 571 Fictions of Nation in Early Modern France
FALL 2020ITAL 414 Boccaccio's Decameron
FALL 2020
FAll 2020FR 417 History of the French Lexicon
FALL 2020FR 579 Literature is Useless
The Department of French & Italian is proud to celebrate Matthew Schultz who is about to graduate with three majors (French, Spanish, and Political Sciences), as well as a minor in Global Studies.
Camille Méritan, PhD candidate in SLATE, and Gyula Zsombok, who recently defended his PhD in French Linguistics, accepted ten
More Department News
- The National Endowment for the Arts awarded professor emerita Armine Kotin Mortimer a Literature Translation Fellowship for
- The use of Virtual Reality is taking hold of UIUC classrooms and basic language courses in French are at the forefront of this innovation.
- Jordan Stump's translation The Barefoot Woman, a novel by Scholastique Mukasonga, is among the five finalists for this year's National Book Award in Translated Fiction.
Calendar
Highlighted Courses
FR 322"Les Années noires (1940-44) and their aftermath"
FR 336Survey of French cultural history from the French Revolution to 1968. Taught in French.
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.
