2020-08-28
- Welcome to this year's incoming graduate students Étienne André, Willie Asamoah, Elena Broscritto, Océane Felisaz, Aaron Koroghlanian, Ari Theodoropoulos, and Jessica Wikle who come to us from Italy, France, Ghana, and the United States!
Étienne André (M.A. French Linguistics) is a native of Bourgogne, France, and a former exchange students in FRIT...
2020-08-21 - Many thanks to our wonderful Directors of Basic Language, Dr.-s Amy Clay and Laura Hill, for organizing our first ever online Orientation and New Student Meet & Greet on August 19. We took advantage of the breakout rooms of a joint Zoom session to meet our six incoming graduate students: Williams Asamoah, Océane Felisaz, Aaron Koroghlanian, and Jessica...
2020-05-15 - Congratulations to Julie Gaillard, Assistant Professor of French, who was awarded a two-year Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Junior Faculty Fellowship for her project, "Who, We? Pronominal Politics, Citizenship, and the Rights of the Other in Hashtag-Era France". The fellowships includes ...
2020-05-15 - The Department of French & Italian is proud to celebrate Matthew Schultz who is about to graduate with three majors (French, Spanish, and Political Sciences), as well as a minor in Global Studies. Matthew just received two prestigious distinctions: the Charlotte Kambarian McMillian Award for French Excellence, recognizing French majors with a 3.9 GPA or more in...
2020-02-24 - Camille Méritan, PhD candidate in SLATE, and Gyula Zsombok, who recently defended his PhD in French Linguistics, accepted tenure-track positions in French starting in fall 2020. Camille, directed by Prof. Aurore Mroz (FRIT), is...
2020-01-16 - The National Endowment for the Arts awarded professor emerita Armine Kotin Mortimer a Literature Translation Fellowship for the translation of a novel by Catherine Cusset. She is one of 24 Literature Translation Fellows in 2020. Cusset's novel Un brillant avenir (2008)...
2020-01-16 - Julie Gaillard and François Proulx each had a new monograph out at the end of 2019. In Réalités pseudonymes (Brill 2020), Gaillard explores the question of reality through the prism of proper names and their referentiality in literature and art at ...
2019-12-18 - FRIT alum Chris Carignan (PhD 2013, French Linguistics) has joined the Department of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London earlier this fall after appointments with the North Carolina State University, the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich...
2019-12-18 - Tricia Thrasher, a second-year Ph.D. student, received a research grant from the Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE) to support her research on the impact of social virtual reality on language anxiety. Tricia's thesis project is entitled "Social Virtual Reality’s Impact on Language Anxiety in Oral Production of L2 French Learners" and her latest experiments were...
2019-10-11 - The use of Virtual Reality is taking hold of UIUC classrooms and basic language courses in French are at the forefront of this innovation.
2019-10-09 - The first Edmay Gregorcy Pritz Scholarship in French was awarded to Hailey Ban, a senior double-majoring in French and Integrative Biology. The scholarship has been established in honor of Ms. Edmay Gregorcy Pritz, an alumna who became a French high school teacher in Cleveland. From here on, the scholarship will be awarded every spring to the most highly achieving junior majoring...
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...
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...