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...
News
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,...
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 (...
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...
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...
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: ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...