To go on a virtual tour of Paris, undergraduates can take FR 156 “Exploring Paris,” one of the most popular general education courses at the University of Illinois, taught by Dr. Felisa Reynolds, Assistant Professor of French.
SPRING 2021FR 207: Writing and Grammar Workshop
SPRING 2021ITAL 310: Advanced Grammar
SPRING 2021FR 576: Outsiders Looking In / Insiders Looking Out: Novels Written by French / not French authors
SPRING 2021FR 485: Commercial French
SPRING 2021FR 213: French Phonetics
SPRING 2021FR 501: Reading French for Grads
SPRING 2021FR 319: Survey of Francophone Literature: Literature from the Former French Colonies
SPRING 2021FR 578: Marcel Proust
Congratulations to Robin Turner, PhD student in French Linguistics, and Nicolas Portugal, PhD candidate in French studies at UIUC for completing an informative and practical workshop offered by the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at UIUC this fall.
Congratulations to Professor Eda Derhemi in FRIT, and Francesco Ferrari, PhD candidate in Italian, whose translation to Italian of an Albanian novel is now in bookstores in Italy, published under the title "Miele sul coltello” (Besa Editrice, 2020).
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.
