The National Endowment for the Arts awarded professor emerita Armine Kotin Mortimer a Literature Translation Fellowship for the translation of a novel by Catherine Cusset.
SPRING 2020FR 156 Exploring Paris
SPRING 2020FR 443 French Around the World
SPRING 2020ITAL 413 Dante
SPRING 2020FR 574 Reading in the 19th-Century Novel
SPRING 2020FR 588 Mixed Methods Research in SLATE
SPRING 2020FR 576 Independence on Film: Portraits by the Colonized
Julie Gaillard and François Proulx each had a new monograph out at the end of 2019.
Tricia Thrasher, a second-year Ph.D. student, received a research grant from the Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE) to support her research on the impact of social virtual reality on language anxiety.
More Department News
- 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.
- 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.
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.
