09/27/2020 - LAS Alumna and ESPN sports anchor Michele Steele got the idea of taking a job as a teacher of English in France after she took a Francophone literature in the Department during her...
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09/18/2020 - Amelia Reggi (M.A. student, Italian Studies) and Robin Turner (PhD student, French Linguistics) are holding FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) fellowships in the academic year 2020-2021. FLAS...
09/10/2020 - Congratulations to Tricia Thrasher (PhD candidate, French SLATE) for receiving one of the five Duolingo Research Grants in Language Learning with Technology in the country in 2020 for her Ph...
08/28/2020 - Welcome to this year's incoming graduate students Étienne André, Willie Asamoah, Elena Broscritto, Océane Felisaz, Aaron Koroghlanian, Ari Theodoropoulos, and Jessica Wikle who come to us from Italy...
08/21/2020 - Many thanks to our wonderful Directors of Basic Language, Dr.-s Amy Clay and Laura Hill, for organizing our first ever online Orientation and New Student Meet & Greet on August 19. We took...
05/15/2020 - The Department of French & Italian is proud to celebrate Matthew Schultz who is about to graduate with three majors (French, Spanish, and Political Sciences), as well as a minor in Global Studies...
05/15/2020 - Congratulations to Julie Gaillard, Assistant Professor of French, who was awarded a two-year Unit for Criticism & Interpretive...
02/24/2020 - Camille Méritan, PhD candidate in SLATE, and Gyula Zsombok, who...
01/16/2020 - Julie Gaillard and François Proulx each had a new monograph out at the end of 2019. In Réalités pseudonymes (Brill 2020), ...
01/16/2020 - The National Endowment for the Arts awarded professor emerita Armine Kotin Mortimer a Literature Translation Fellowship for the...
12/18/2019 - 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...
12/18/2019 - FRIT alum Chris Carignan (PhD 2013, French Linguistics) has joined the Department of Psychology and Language Sciences at University...
10/11/2019 - The use of Virtual Reality is taking hold of UIUC classrooms and basic language courses in French are at the...
10/09/2019 - 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...
10/07/2019 - Jordan Stump's translation The Barefoot Woman, a novel by Scholastique Mukasonga, is among the five finalists for this year's National...
