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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:...
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150 years of Italian presence in Brazil: Film screening and reception
Friday, April 11
6 pm -
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 LCLB, and LCLB Atrium
The year 2024 marked 150 years since the arrival of Italian immigrants in Brazil, a significant event that deeply impacted the country's culture, society, and...
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Professor Eda Derhemi receives SLCL Diversity and Engagement Award
Heartfelt congratulations to Professor Eda Derhemi who is this year's faculty recipient of the SLCL Diversity and Engagement Award in recognition of her efforts to foster local, national, and international outreach activities and extensive work with linguistically endangered communities...
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Professor Daniel Maroun selected as HRI Fellow for 2025-26
Congratulations to Professor Daniel Maroun on having been selected as a Humanities Research Institute faculty fellow for the academic year 2025-26. His proposal, “The Politics of Kinship: Writing Queerness, Filiation, and Race in Contemporary France,” responded to this year’s theme...