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...
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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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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 ...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...- 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....
2017-10-17 - Professor Stoppino will be working on her project, “Ugly Beast, Talking Monkey: Contagion and Education in Medieval and Early Modern Culture”.