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...
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...
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 “...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
2025-03-09 - Congratulations to Professor Daniel Maroun on having been selected as a Humanities Research Institute faculty fellow for the academic year 2025-26. His proposal, “The Politics of Kinship: Writing Queerness, Filiation, and Race in Contemporary France,” responded to this year’s theme...
2025-03-02 - Congratulations to PhD Candidate Julia Gorham (French SLATE) who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “L2 French Students’ and Instructors’ Experiences of Critical Literacies Pedagogy: A Mixed Methods Program” on March 6, 2025 at 11 am in 2090B, LCLB. Members of her committee were...
2025-03-01 - This is a March Madness bracket type competition that starts with 16 songs (in French!) that advance by international student voting. You can self-enroll on Canvas to see the...
2025-02-26 - Evening French Conversations to brush up on your spoken French! Event Type Social/Informal Event Location 1080, Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB Contact Sacha Craig (acraig22@illinois.edu), graduate...
2025-02-12 - Two of our faculty members have been recently featured in LAS News for their ongoing teaching and outreach initiatives. Professor Aurore Mroz, founder of the Cercle Francophone aims to develop and maintain French English bilingualism and biliteracy in Francophone and Francophile children...
2025-01-18 - Congratulations to our Italian Basic Language Program that has been awarded a grant by the Italian Ministry of Culture for the second year in a row. Administered by the Italian Cultural Services in the United States, the grant will support our program's course offerings of eight-week...