12/09/2023 - 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...
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11/25/2023 - 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...
11/12/2023 - 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...
11/12/2023 - 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...
10/28/2023 - 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...
10/10/2023 - 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...
09/30/2023 - Professor Felisa Reynolds, one of our specialists in Francophone literatures and cultures, presented a lecture on Thursday, September 28 in the Department of Anthropology's Colloquium Series on her...
09/17/2023 - This year's incoming graduate students again come to us from a variety of places to study French and Italian literatures, cultures, linguistics, and language pedagogy. From left to right and top to...
09/17/2023 - We are hiring faculty for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Italian Studies, with a start date of August 16, 2024 and a broad set of specializations! They include but are not...
07/03/2023 - The recent riots in France have raised questions about French police’s "larger purpose" in the country, stated Assistant Professor Daniel Nabil Maroun on FRANCE 24, the French state-owned...
05/31/2023 - Look up our French and Italian summer course offerings, if you would like to study our languages over the summer. Regular instruction in French and Italian resumes on August 16. Have a restful and...
05/04/2023 - This year's K. A. Looney Awards for French Merit prize went to six outstanding majors and minors who have been excellent in their classes and earned a...
04/19/2023 - Congratulations to Professor Julie Gaillard for winning Honorable Mention, one of this year's Humanities Research Institute's Prizes for Research across all fields of the Humanities on campus....
03/13/2023 - Congratulations to faculty and teaching assistants who have been ranked as excellent by their students in Fall 2022! Thank you for your hard work in your classrooms during our first semester fully...
02/11/2023 - The first issue of this year's H-France Forum, the blog space devoted to highlights of significant new books in Francophone history and literature, is featuring reviews of Professor Emeritus...
