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:...
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...