2023-03-13 - Congratulations to faculty and teaching assistants who have been ranked as excellent by their students in Fall 2022! Thank you for your hard work in your classrooms during our first semester fully back to campus. We are proud of you! ASAMOAH, FRIMPONG W (TA) – FR 103* CLAY, A – FR 101 CRAIG, S (TA) – FR 101* GORHAM, J (...

2023-02-11 - The first issue of this year's H-France Forum, the blog space devoted to highlights of significant new books in Francophone history and literature, is featuring reviews of Professor Emeritus Jean-Philippe Mathy's latest book: "Chronic Aftershock: How 9/11 Shaped Present-Day France" (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021). The format, introduced over a decade ago, is now well-...

2023-02-05 - This semester's Italian and French Conversation Tables are back and open to students, staff, and faculty. Each event is held in Espresso Royal Café, located on the corner of Goodwin Avenue and Oregon Street in Urbana. The weekly Caffettino! events are organized every Monday from 5-6 pm by PhD candidate in Italian Studies: Soraya Chipolla (...

2023-01-12 - The graduate programs of French and SLATE are proud to announce that Dr. Tricia Thrasher (PhD 2022, French SLATE) has been awarded the 2022 ACTFL-NFMLTA/MLJ Emma Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in World Language Education. She is the first UIUC student ever to have received this prestigious award from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign...

2022-12-22 - Wishing you and your family peace, health, happiness, and prosperity in this holiday season and the coming New Year. We will return to campus on or shortly before Monday, January 9, 2023. E n j o y   y o u r  w i n t e r   b r e a k !  

2022-12-14 - Congratulations to Professor Daniel Nabil Maroun who obtained a highly competitive grant awarded by the French Embassy and the FACE Foundation to initiate much-needed revisions in the French Undergraduate Curriculum. Professor Maroun’s proposal, entitled “Professionalizing French in Illinois: Empowering French and Francophone Studies,” responded to...

2022-12-04 - Congratulations to Professors Julie Gaillard and Aurore Mroz on the selection of their projects for the LAS-OVCDEI Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate Spring 2023 program!  This highly competitive award will provide the 16 selected faculty participants, including Professors Gaillard and Mroz, with funding for a one-course release in Spring 2023 to help with the design or revision of syllabi or...

2022-11-19 - FRIT Affiliate Professor Brett Kaplan’s novel "Rare Stuff" (2022) is a captivating story of a daughter’s quest for answers about her mother’s disappearance through remnants of memory and loss, identity, and hope. As Professor Kaplan’s explained in her...

2022-11-08 - Associate Professor Felisa Reynolds, Assistant Professor Daniel Maroun, Ph.D. candidate Amanda Smith, and Alumna Anne Mutidjo (Ph.D. 2022, Lecturer at Ohio State University) participated in a joint panel at the bi-annual Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum (DDFC) conference on November 4, 2022. Their papers focused on themes, such as re-writing the literary canon, new...

2022-10-29 - Congratulations to FRIT Alumna Dr. Tricia Thrasher (PhD, French SLATE, 2022) and Associate Professor Randall Sadler (Linguistics) who received funding from Meta Platform Technologies, formerly known as Facebook, and Immerse, Inc., a company specializing in Virtual Reality (VR) for teaching languages. Their project, "Immersive technologies for language learning in underserved public...

2022-10-09 - For the centenary of French novelist Marcel Proust’s death (18 November, 1922), Prof. François Proulx co-edited a special issue of L’Esprit Créateur on “Proust to Other Ends” with Hannah Freed-Thall (NYU), featuring articles by leading scholars from France, the U.S. and Japan. Profs. Proulx and Caroline Szylowicz (Curator...

2022-10-01 - Join Professor François Proulx (Department of French and Italian) and RBML curator Caroline Szylowicz for a conversation about the life and works of the famous 19th-century writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922). The event will mark the 100th anniversary of his death with an exploration of books, manuscripts and letters drawn our Rare Book & Manuscript Library's famed Proust collection. You will...

2022-09-19 - 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...

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:...