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Francophone Film Festival (Sept 12 - Dec 5)
The Department of French & Italian is proud to present this year's Francophone Film Festival of Champaign Urbana.Click on this link for more informationThe event will take...
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FRIT instructors ranked as excellent in Spring 2025
Congratulations to the following instructors in FRIT ranked as excellent by their students in their Spring 2025 courses, based on the ratings from the...
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Professor Mroz promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Professor Aurore Mroz who has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of French & Italian with indefinite tenure, beginning August 16, 2025. Professor Mroz joined our French program as Assistant Professor in 2015, following a similar position at...
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Professor Clay promoted to Teaching Associate Professor
Congratulations to Professor Amy Clay who has been promoted to the rank of Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of French & Italian, beginning August 16, 2025. Professor Clay joined our program as Instructor in French in 2017, obtained her Ph.D. in Second-Language Acquisition at the...
French in the Community
Introduction to French-speaking communities in the Champaign-Urbana area. Students collaborate with community partners who serve French-speaking populations, developing contextualized oral proficiency and civic engagement. Taught in French.
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Professor Fagyal is among the recipients of seed funding from BRIDGE
Professor Zsuzsanna Fagyal (FRIT) is among the three recipients of seed funding from the Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement and Education (“BRIDGE”) to initiate collaborative research and scholarly exchanges on “...
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Anne Olmstead receives Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award
Congratulations to Anne Olmstead, the wonderful Office Manager of the Departments of French & Italian and Germanic Languages, who received one of SLCL’s Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award. Her...
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Prof. Samira El Atia delivered this year's Distinguished Alumni Lecture
This year’s FRIT Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture was delivered by French SLATE Alumna Dr. Samira El Atia (PhD 2003) who is Professor of Education and the Associate Dean of Research, Graduate Studies and International Affairs at the bilingual Campus Saint-Jean of the University of...
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FRIT students help select 2025 US Goncourt Prize winner
On April 19, 2025, a jury of 10 university students announced Madelaine avant l’aube by Sandrine Collette as the winner of the fourth US Goncourt Prize Selection. Hosted at Villa Albertine in New York City, the award ceremony resulted from months of study and debate conducted by students...
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Amelia Reggi and Williams Asamoah awarded dissertation completion fellowships
- Amelia Reggi was awarded a 2025-2026 SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her thesis project, "Bodies in Crisis: Idealized Femininity and the Curse of Womanhood in the Early 20th Century Italian Novel and Play” (Director of research:...