2022-08-20
- 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...
2022-08-09 - 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:...
2022-05-04 - 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: https://las.illinois.edu/news/blog/las-insider/2022-04-21/how-...
2022-04-25 - 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 Foreign Policy Research Fellow in the College of ACE received one a highly...
2022-04-13 - 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 Junior Award for Excellence in Teaching Italian for his competence, passion, and...
2022-03-13 - Congratulations to Associate Teaching Professor of Italian Eda Derhemi who has been awarded a 2022 HRI Summer Faculty Research Fellowship! Every year, the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) awards this prestigious fellowship to two specialized and two tenure-line faculty in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences on campus to help them maximize the summer for research in service of...
2022-02-27 - Having graduated in the early months of the pandemic, Camille Méritan (PhD 2020), now Assistant Professor Tenure-Track at Bentley College (MA), believes that COVID did not necessarily have a significant impact on her job search. She was able to travel to three campus interviews and select her favorite place a few weeks prior to the March 2020 lockdown. COVID-19 did, however, have an impact on her...
2022-01-26 - Congratulations to Alum Nick Strole (PhD 2019) who has recently been named Senior Tutor and Teaching Specialist, the equivalent of Teaching Assistant Professor, at the University of Melbourne in Australia! Nick is a researcher and instructor for French language, literature, and culture courses at all levels, with particular emphasis on contemporary theatre and media in French, digital...
2022-01-17 - Happy New Year and Welcome to Spring 2022! Orientation in our French and Italian Basic Language Programs included two workshops on Thursday and Friday January 13 and 14 on strategies and tips on teaching grammar in the basic language sequence and actively engaging students in diverse and inclusive classrooms. The grammar workshop featured Professors Laura Hill and Amy Clay, Directors of the...
2021-12-09 - Congratulations to Professor Emerita Evelyne Accad on the publication of her bilingual collection of short stories: “La Maison de la Tendresse: Nouvelles sur les femmes libanaises/House of Tenderness: Short stories on Lebanese women” (L’Harmattan, 2021)....
2021-11-30 - Congratulations to Professor Felisa Vergara Reynolds whose book "The Author as Cannibal: Rewriting in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre, 1969–1995" has just been released in its paper and electronic editions by Nebraska University Press. The book situates Francophone authors engaged in an exercise of rewriting narratives from the colonial literary canon within...
Tricia Thrasher wins Dissertation Support Grant from Network of Modern Language Teacher Associations2021-10-19 - Congratulations to Tricia Thrasher, PhD candidate in French SLATE, for receiving a Dissertation Support Grant from the Network of Modern Language Teacher Associations (NFMLTA) to work on her dissertation titled: Saying ‘Au Revoir’ to Anxiety in a Heartbeat: The benefits of Virtual Reality for Language Learning. Instituted in 2013 by the NFMLTA, this grant provides...
2021-10-09 - Professors Felisa Reynolds, Daniel Maroun, and Eda Derhemi presented at international conferences on topics connected to several intersecting research areas in the department, among them visual studies, gender & queer studies, and regional and ethnic minority identities. At the virtual conference, celebrating the launch...
2021-09-27 - Congratulations to Professor Emanuel Rota (FRIT & EUC) and the transatlantic team of researchers associated with the project “Understanding Narratives of Racialization in the Mediterranean” for their grant from the Embassy of France! This grant has been awarded through the France@Illinois Center of Excellence, one of twenty-two Centers of Excellence...
2021-09-19 - Congratulations to Professor Daniel Maroun, our Director of Undergraduate Studies and Undergraduate Advisor for French, for winning this year's Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award. In his essay, “Do Black Lives Matter in France? Agency, Culpability and Police Brutality,” ...