2025-03-17
- On March 10, Prof. George Gasyna traveled to the Gene Siskel Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago to give a presentation and lead a Q & A session about the 1958 classic film Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament, Dir. Andrzej Wajda). The film screening was part of the Chicago European Union Film Festival: Focus on Poland, which was generously co-sponsored by UIUC’s European Union Center...
2025-01-27 - In December 2024, Professor Waïl S. Hassan was elected second vice president of the Modern Language Association (MLA). With over 20,000 members based in over 100 countries, the MLA is the principal professional association for academic scholars, professors, and graduate students of modern languages and literatures in the United States. Hassan will serve as...
2024-12-18 - “Lucidly written, Eric Calderwood’s On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al- Andalus deftly traces the stories associated with al-Andalus across centuries to explore how interracial and interreligious harmony was shaped across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. Through a multilingual reading, Calderwood demonstrates how the richness and elasticity of al-...
2023-08-21 - The Spanish newspaper Cordópolis recently published an article about Eric Calderwood’s new book, On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus (Harvard University Press, 2023). You can read the article (in Spanish) here: https://cordopolis.eldiario.es/cultura/andalus-llave-...
2022-06-09 - Sophia Ebel, of Champaign, and a graduate of the University of Illinois Laboratory High School, was awarded a Fulbright combined award to Austria. There, she will teach English at a teacher training college while also conducting research on the representation of refugee narratives within Austrian secondary school classrooms. Ebel graduated in May as a Bronze Tablet Scholar and member of the...
2022-06-06 - In this episode of "Encounters with Polish Literature," David Goldfarb, of the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, interviews Prof. George Gasyna, and asks why we might want to know about the Polish Conrad as well as his writings in English. Watch the video!
2020-06-18 - Harriet Murav has been appointed as a Professor in the Center for Advanced Study starting Fall 2020, one of our highest honors. Read original article
2019-08-05 - The Spanish newspaper Cordopolis published a long interview with Prof. Eric Calderwood about 'Al-Andalus in Morocco', where he analyzes the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the Maghreb country and the weight of the Andalusian identity....
2019-08-02 - New program at Illinois helps professors amplify their ideas to a wider audience.