News and Announcements

This Spring's In/Between Conference will be held Thursday and Friday, March 1st and 2nd, 2012.

(PDF, Literature Keynote)

(PDF, Linguistics Keynote)

Professors Chiara Fabbian, Kim Potowski and Margarita Saona of the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies were honored by the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) with the 2011-2012 Teaching Recognition Award.

Russell A. Berman, 2011 President of the MLA and professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Stanford, explains why college students should make foreign language part of their studies.

Marsha Cassidy, Instructor and mentor for the MOVI minor, received the 2012 award for Outstanding Pedagogical Achievement, conferred by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).

Professor Michal Pawel Markowski, Hejna Chair in Polish Language and Literature and Head of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at UIC, gave three lectures on Czeslaw Milosz in India as an invited speaker of the Polish Embassy in November 2011.

Sara Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, was featured in a recent article on unique college courses in Chicago (link to article in the Tribune's Red Eye Newspaper). The "Golden Twenties in Berlin" is part of Hall's GER 318 (PDF), which is being taught this semester.

Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, received a Fulbright Scholar grant to research native language arts in Oaxaca, Mexico. Read on...

Jennifer Tobin, Associate Professor of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, was honored with the 2011 Silver Circle Award. Recipients of this award have been chosen by UIC's graduating seniors since 1966.