2019-10-07
- Jordan Stump's translation The Barefoot Woman, a novel by Scholastique Mukasonga, is among the five finalists for this year's National Book Award in Translated Fiction. The Barefoot Woman is Scholastique Mukasonga...
2019-02-13 - François Proulx (FRIT), Caroline Szylowicz (Rare Book & Manuscript Library) and Françoise Leriche (Université Grenoble Alpes) presented the Corr-Proust project at the New York Public Library on February 14, 2019. The event was dedicated to Proust’s letters and the presentation of the new open-access digital edition of his correspondence (www.corr-proust....
2018-12-06 - Illinois researchers have created a website to make thousands of letters written by Marcel Proust available to the public. Caroline Szylowicz, the Kolb-Proust librarian and a curator of rare books and manuscripts, and Francois Proulx, a professor of French, are experts in Proust’s correspondence. They partnered on the project with two French institutions, Universite Grenoble Alpes and the...
2018-11-27 - Asura Louise Osborne, a 2018 graduate of UIUC with a Minor in Italian, has won the Dante Society of America Prize for an undergraduate essay. Asura wrote her paper, “Time and Movement in Dante’s Comedy”, during the last academic year for ITAL 413, a class she took with Dr. Corey Flack. Since 1887 The Dante Society of America has presented annual prizes for the best student essays on a subject...
2018-07-20 - Matthew Schultz is among 5 LAS students who received the honor. A graduate of Prospect High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, he will be learning Turkish in Baku, Azerbaijan. As part of the program, he will live with a host family while taking classes at Azerbaijan University of Languages. Schultz, a sophomore French major who studied abroad in Paris in spring 2018 and taught...
2018-04-20 - Jessica Nicholas, a graduating PhD student in the Department of French and Italian, gave an invited talk titled “Community Translation and Interpretation: Challenges and Rewards,” on April 11 at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL). Nicholas, who recently completed the requirements to receive a doctoral degree, discussed how the practical application of her French skills has led her on a...
2018-02-20 - Professor François Proulx and graduate students enrolled in the seminar “French 578: Marcel Proust” collaborated on the online exhibition Proust and the Great War. Time Regained, the final volume of Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time, is among the most famous literary depictions of World War I. Yet most of Proust’s letters from the war period have never...
2018-02-08 - The LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching is being awarded to Robert Rushing, professor of French and Italian and comparative and world literature among 3 others. Winners receive $1,000 for teaching and research and a one-time increment of $2,000 added to their salary...- 2017-11-16 - Students from Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Ill., were special guests of the Department of French and Italian on Oct. 30. The busload of approximately 50 students was initially divided into groups to complete a scavenger hunt en français, under the supervision of Prof. Clay and Prof. Maroun. The scavenger hunt consisted of simple, but fun tasks using the campus environment, such as ‘...
2017-10-17 - Professor Stoppino will be working on her project, “Ugly Beast, Talking Monkey: Contagion and Education in Medieval and Early Modern Culture”.