02/13/2019 - François Proulx (FRIT), Caroline Szylowicz (Rare Book & Manuscript Library) and Françoise Leriche (Université Grenoble Alpes) presented the Corr-Proust project at the New York Public Library on...
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12/06/2018 - Illinois researchers have created a website to make thousands of letters written by Marcel Proust available to the public. Caroline Szylowicz, the Kolb-Proust librarian and a curator of rare books...
11/27/2018 - Asura Louise Osborne, a 2018 graduate of UIUC with a Minor in Italian, has won the Dante Society of America Prize for an undergraduate essay. Asura wrote her paper, “Time and Movement in Dante’s...
07/20/2018 - Matthew Schultz is among 5 LAS students who received the honor. A graduate of Prospect High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, he will be learning Turkish in Baku, Azerbaijan. As part of the...
04/20/2018 - Jessica Nicholas, a graduating PhD student in the Department of French and Italian, gave an invited talk titled “Community Translation and Interpretation: Challenges and Rewards,” on April 11 at the...
02/20/2018 - Professor François Proulx and graduate students enrolled in the seminar “French 578: Marcel Proust” collaborated on the online exhibition Proust and the Great War. Time Regained, the final...
02/08/2018 - The LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching is being awarded to Robert Rushing, professor of French and Italian and ...
11/16/2017 - Students from Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Ill., were special guests of the Department of French and Italian on Oct. 30. The busload of approximately 50 students was initially divided...
10/17/2017 - Professor Stoppino will be working on her project, “Ugly Beast, Talking Monkey: Contagion and Education in Medieval and Early Modern Culture”.
