François Proulx (FRIT), Caroline Szylowicz (Rare Book & Manuscript Library) and Françoise Leriche (Université Grenoble Alpes) presented the Corr-Proust project at the New York Public Library on February 14, 2019.
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Illinois researchers have created a website to make thousands of letters written by Marcel Proust available to the public. Caroline Szylowicz, the Kolb-Proust librarian and a curator of rare books and manuscripts, and Francois Proulx, a professor of French, are experts in Proust’s correspondence. They partnered on the project with two French institutions, Universite Grenoble Alpes and the Institute for Modern Texts and Manuscripts.
More Department News
- Amelia Reggi, a current European Union Center FLAS fellow, has recently been named a Fulbright Award finalist for the English Teaching Assistant Program to teach English in Italy.
- Asura Louise Osborne, a 2018 graduate of UIUC with a Minor in Italian, has won the Dante Society of America Prize for an undergraduate essay. Asura wrote her paper, “Time and Movement in Dante’s Comedy”, during the last academic year for ITAL 413, a class she took with Dr. Corey Flack.
- Matthew Schultz is among 5 LAS students who received the honor. A graduate of Prospect High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, he will be learning Turkish in Baku, Azerbaijan. As part of the program, he will live with a host family while taking classes at Azerbaijan University of Languages.
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Highlighted Courses
ITAL 413An interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy with special attention to its position in the medieval world; a knowledge of Italian not required.
ITAL 510This seminar explores the boundaries between humans and animals in the medieval world and beyond.
ITAL 310Study of the structure of modern Italian in both its phonological and syntactic aspects for the student who already has a functional command of the language, with an emphasis on developing ability to analyze and interpret grammatical structures.
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.
FR 324Explores relationships between French literature and such fields as art, architecture, and music. Topics will vary.
ITAL 240The development of Medieval Italian civilization in a literary context from the Sicilian School of love poetry to the early Renaissance in Florence; lectures and readings are in English.
FR 418Introduction to political, judicial, linguistic, and cultural issues concerning indigenous and migrant/immigrant languages in the countries of the European Union.
