Congratulations to faculty and teaching assistants who have been ranked as excellent by their students in Fall 2022! Thank you for your hard work in your classrooms during our first semester fully back to campus.
We are proud of you!
ASAMOAH, FRIMPONG W (TA) – FR 103*
CLAY, A – FR 101
CRAIG, S (TA) – FR 101*
GORHAM, J (TA...
Italian Movie Night: "I cento passi" (Giordano 2000)
4-5 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge (FLB)
Spring 2023: FR 319 Québec Literature and Cinema
Spring 2023: FR 543 'We? - Pronominal politics, hegemony, alterity"
Spring 2023: ITAL 413 Dante
Spring 2023: FR 313 Worldwide Spoken French
Spring 2023: FR 156 Exploring Paris
Spring 2023: FR 579 Reading with Roland Barthes
Spring 2023: FR/ITAL 418 Language and Minorities in Europe
Spring 2023: ITAL 310 Advanced Grammar
The first issue of this year's H-France Forum, the blog space devoted to highlights of significant new books in Francophone history and literature, is featuring reviews of Professor Emeritus Jean-Philippe Mathy's latest book: "Chronic Aftershock: How 9/11 Shaped Present-Day France" (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021). The format, introduced over a decade ago, is now well-established...
This semester's Italian and French Conversation Tables are back and open to students, staff, and faculty. Each event is held in Espresso Royal Café, located on the corner of Goodwin Avenue and Oregon Street in Urbana. The weekly Caffettino! events are organized every Monday from 5-6 pm by PhD candidate in Italian Studies: Soraya Chipolla (sorayac2@...
More Department News
- The graduate programs of French and SLATE are proud to announce that Dr. Tricia Thrasher (PhD 2022, French SLATE) has been awarded the 2022 ACTFL-NFMLTA/MLJ Emma Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in World Language Education. She is the first UIUC student ever to...
- Wishing you and your family peace, health, happiness, and prosperity in this holiday season and the coming New Year. We will return to campus on or shortly before Monday, January 9, 2023. E n j o y y o u r w i n t e r b r e a k !
- Congratulations to Professor Daniel Nabil Maroun who obtained a highly competitive grant awarded by the French Embassy and the FACE Foundation to initiate much-needed revisions in the French Undergraduate Curriculum. Professor Maroun’s proposal, entitled “Professionalizing French in Illinois:...
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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...
