10/29/2022 - 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...
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10/09/2022 - For the centenary of French novelist Marcel Proust’s death (18 November, 1922), Prof. François Proulx co-edited a special issue of L’Esprit...
10/01/2022 - 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...
09/19/2022 - 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...
08/20/2022 - 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...
08/09/2022 - 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...
05/04/2022 - 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...
04/25/2022 - 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...
04/13/2022 - 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. ...
03/13/2022 - 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...
02/27/2022 - 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...
01/26/2022 - 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...
01/17/2022 - 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...
12/09/2021 - Congratulations to Professor Emerita Evelyne Accad on the publication of her bilingual collection of short stories: “...
11/30/2021 - 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...
