Congratulations to Professor Eleonora Stoppino on her new book, entitled "Libri cavallereschi in prosa e in versi: Repertorio di incunaboli," published with Anna Maria Montanari at Interlinea Press, Italy, this summer.
The volume catalogues all chivalric incunables (books printed before 1501) published in Italy, tracing their bibliographic and scholarly history. The book contributes to...
SPRING 2023: FR 501 Reading for French Grads
Spring 2023: ITAL 413 Dante
Spring 2023: ITAL 406 Italian Culture and Globalization
Spring 2023: FR 179 Migration and French National Identity
Spring 2023: FR 313 Worldwide Spoken French
Fall 2022: ITAL 210 Practical Review through texts on Women
Spring 2023: FR 543 'We' Pronominal politics - Citizenship and "the Other"
Fall 2022: FR 588 Seminar in Second Language Learning
Spring 2023: FR/ITAL 418 Language and Minorities in Europe
Fall 2022: SLCL 200 Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean
Welcome to this year's incoming graduate students who come to us from many locations on two continents! Aisha (Sacha) Craig (Ph.D., French Studies) is a native of France and a trilingual speaker of French, Arabic, and English. She graduated from Loyola University Chicago (BA) and the University of Illinois in Chicago (MA). During her doctoral studies, she wishes to learn more...
Welcome to the new academic year! Orientation for new and returning TAs will take place during the week of August 15-19. The orientation schedule, with all readings, documents, and FRIT meeting Zoom links are available on the Fall 2022 FRIT Orientation Moodle site (learn.illinois.edu). For graduate advising, please reach out to your coursework area’s graduate advisor:...
More Department News
- Congratulations to one of our graduating French minors, Savannah Sander, who participated in this year’s Undergraduate Research Symposium. Her work and and impactful journey at UIUC have been featured in LAS News: ...
- Undergraduate students in our French and Italian programs have again demonstrated excellence in their studies this year. Congratulations to the following students who received national and departmental awards for their achievements! Ella Dennis, student of French and...
- The Department of French and Italian is proud to recognize the following outstanding graduate students for their continued excellence in teaching and research in the academic year of 2021-2022. Aristides Theodoropoulos has been awarded the Department of French & Italian...
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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...
