Join us in congratulating Amanda Smith who successfully defended her PhD dissertation on Friday, December 1. Her dissertation opened a new, and hopefully lasting, focus of our program on Black collectivism and French Black women individuality. Titled “21st Century Black Beauty Resistance: Collectivism, Individuality and In/visibility in Black French Women's Body and Hair Representations,” the...
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Spring 2024: FR 322 MW 2-3:20 pm
Spring 2024: ITAL 413 Dante
Spring 2024: FR 578 Proust
Spring 2024: FR/ITAL/LING/PS/EURO/SPAN/SLAV 418 Language and Minorities in Europe
Spring 2024 FR 588 Clay
Spring 2024: ITAL/EURO/PS 413 Europe and the Mediterranean
Dayna Osafo, Aliyah Starks, and Seth Wickens-Walther, three UIUC undergraduates who studied French with us, are currently holding internships in Paris. Thanks to the cooperation between LAS International Programs and Studies and IFE (...
Prior to the pandemic, the French program had organized more than one visit of our French classrooms from local high schools in the area. However, the first post-pandemic visit from Mount Zion, IL on Wednesday October 11 that brought 26 high schoolers to our classrooms and campus was special in many ways. First of all, the sheer number of participants who wished to visit beginner and advanced...
More Department News
- This past October was busy with two Ph.D. dissertation defenses directed by Professor Emeritus, Jean-Philippe Mathy. Elham Karimi Balan, now at Colby College, Maine, defended her dissertation, titled "Writing the Self in the Language of the Other: Trauma and the Body in Autobiographical Novels by...
- Professor Vincent Hunter Capps from the University of Buffalo gave an inspiring lecture on Thursday, October 26, titled "Raw is Law: Queer Theory and the Dustanien Text." The lecture was addressed to the public, but students currently enrolled in Professor Daniel Maroun's FR 543 graduate seminar on...
- What are small but meaningful changes that you can apply to improve your classroom teaching? How do you improve courses in an entire program while balancing other professional responsibilities? These were some of the overarching questions Assistant Teaching Professor Amy Clay asked in her CITL...
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Highlighted Courses
FR 322"Les Années noires (1940-44) and their aftermath" Les Années noires (1940-1944) and their aftermath in film, literature, memoirs and documents such as photography. The Vichy regime ; Everyday life in Paris during the Nazi Occupation ; Collaboration and Resistance ; the Holocaust...
FR 336Survey of French cultural history from the French Revolution to 1968. Taught in French.
FR 324"Images of Reality, Reality of Images."
ITAL 420ITAL 420 Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
ITAL 240FA19 ITAL 240 Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant
FR 529FR 529 Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance course
FR 212Introduction to concepts of and debates on French national identity. Materials are drawn from a multiplicity of media and from many spheres of modern life in France: political, artistic, the everyday, etc. Identification of major resources for the study of culture and analysis of diverse cultural...
