2025-10-12
- The University’s first-ever Humanities Open House, held on Saturday, October 4, 2025, was a success. The many events offered on or near the Main Quad highlighted the best of what the humanities have to offer — from academic programs, research, and resources to student- and alumni-led activities and stories.The (fun!) activities and offerings at our table were designed for current...
2025-09-30 - The College of LAS has awarded a $6,000 Inclusive Excellence funding to Prof. Mroz for her innovative public engagement project titled French Around The Corner. "The Office of Inclusive Excellence is delighted to partner with the Dean Augoustakis [Associate Dean for Humanities and Interdisciplinary Programs] and support this...
2025-09-25 - Join us for Italian Movie Night (La vita è bella)Location: Armory (room 147)Date: Sep 25, 2025 5:00 pm Sponsor: Department of French & ItalianContact: Leonardo Chiaranti (leo85@illinois.edu) and hectorc2@illinois.edu
2025-09-09 - The Department of French & Italian is proud to present this year's Francophone Film Festival of Champaign Urbana.Click on this link for more informationThe event will take place in the Spurlock Museum's Knight Auditorium on six Fridays from 6-9pm....
2025-08-30 - Congratulations to the following instructors in FRIT ranked as excellent by their students in their Spring 2025 courses, based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) maintained by Measurement and Evaluation in the...
2025-08-15 - Congratulations to Professor Aurore Mroz who has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of French & Italian with indefinite tenure, beginning August 16, 2025. Professor Mroz joined our French program as Assistant Professor in 2015, following a similar position at Colby College (2012-2015) and the defense of her doctoral dissertation (2012) at the University of Iowa...
2025-06-05 - Congratulations to Professor Amy Clay who has been promoted to the rank of Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of French & Italian, beginning August 16, 2025. Professor Clay joined our program as Instructor in French in 2017, obtained her Ph.D. in Second-Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018, and has been directing our French Basic Language program for...
2025-05-09 - Professor Zsuzsanna Fagyal (FRIT) is among the three recipients of seed funding from the Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement and Education (“BRIDGE”) to initiate collaborative research and scholarly exchanges on “Computational Sociolinguistics and the Impacts of Language Models” with colleagues at the University of...
2025-05-03 - Congratulations to Anne Olmstead, the wonderful Office Manager of the Departments of French & Italian and Germanic Languages, who received one of SLCL’s Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award. Her contributions to the life of these two units were described in these terms: “Anne exceeds high...
2025-04-26 - This year’s FRIT Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture was delivered by French SLATE Alumna Dr. Samira El Atia (PhD 2003) who is Professor of Education and the Associate Dean of Research, Graduate Studies and International Affairs at the bilingual Campus Saint-Jean of the University of Alberta. She specializes in language assessment and evaluation of the competencies of bilingual learners...
2025-04-21 - On April 19, 2025, a jury of 10 university students announced Madelaine avant l’aube by Sandrine Collette as the winner of the fourth US Goncourt Prize Selection. Hosted at Villa Albertine in New York City, the award ceremony resulted from months of study and debate conducted by students at 10 American universities including the University of Illinois. This year, participating...
2025-04-12 - - Amelia Reggi was awarded a 2025-2026 SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her thesis project, "Bodies in Crisis: Idealized Femininity and the Curse of Womanhood in the Early 20th Century Italian Novel and Play” (Director of research: Professor Emmanuel Rota)https://frit.illinois...
2025-03-28 - Friday, April 11 6 pm - Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 LCLB, and LCLB Atrium The year 2024 marked 150 years since the arrival of Italian immigrants in Brazil, a significant event that deeply impacted the country's culture, society, and economy. Italian immigration to Brazil, beginning in 1874 with the ship "La Sofia," fostered a rich...
2025-03-14 - Heartfelt congratulations to Professor Eda Derhemi who is this year's faculty recipient of the SLCL Diversity and Engagement Award in recognition of her efforts to foster local, national, and international outreach activities and extensive work with linguistically endangered communities around the world in an effort to promote diversity and inclusivity. This award, initiated in 2021,...