We are hiring faculty for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Italian Studies, with a start date of August 16, 2024 and a broad set of specializations! They include but are not limited to: Minority Studies, Cultural Studies, Diaspora and Migration Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Global Early Modern Studies.
Applicants with an...
Colloquium: The Politics of Colonization
Italian Conversation Table Fall 2023
French Conversation Table Fall 2023
Fall 2023: FR 387 Media and Cinema in French
Fall 2023: ITAL 156 Exploring Rome
Fall 2023: FR 543 Narratives of Disease
Fall 2023: ITAL 420 Masterpieces of Renaissance Literature
Fall 2023: ITAL 210 Practical Review of Italian
Fall 2023: FR 212 French Identities
Fall 2023: FR 156 Exploring Paris
This year's incoming graduate students again come to us from a variety of places to study French and Italian literatures, cultures, linguistics, and language pedagogy. From left to right and top to bottom on this picture, meet: Michele Prudence Djemwel Biscene (md58@illinois.edu), M.A. Student in French Studies (B.A....
The recent riots in France have raised questions about French police’s "larger purpose" in the country, stated Assistant Professor Daniel Nabil Maroun on FRANCE 24, the French state-owned international news television network based in Paris. The riots broke out after the recent shooting of a 17-year-old, identified as Nahel M., by a police officer in the Paris suburb of Nanterre when he was...
More Department News
- Look up our French and Italian summer course offerings, if you would like to study our languages over the summer. Regular instruction in French and Italian resumes on August 16. Have a restful and productive summer!
- This year's K. A. Looney Awards for French Merit prize went to six outstanding majors and minors who have been excellent in their classes and earned a minimum GPA of 3.5 in a rigorous academic program in French. Minors:...
- Congratulations to Professor Julie Gaillard for winning Honorable Mention, one of this year's Humanities Research Institute's Prizes for Research across all fields of the Humanities on campus. Professor Gaillard's article is entitled: “‘Returning 'home’? Or Dwelling in the Pixel Age: On Invader’s...
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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.
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...
