Dr. Julia Vaingurt’s (Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies) book Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism has been published by Northwestern University Press. A description is below. Artists of…
The Classics Department was represented well by Dr. Krishni Burns, who recently guested on Epic City Radio, hosted by Carolivia Herron of Howard University! The program discussed the Homerathon, Calliope’s Library, and the…
Dr. Gyu-Ho Shin (Department of Linguistics) presents his work (Polysemy interpretation and transformer language models: A case of Korean adverbial postposition -(u)lo) at the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) (Abu…
Dr. Gyu-Ho Shin (Department of Linguistics) presents his work (GPT-3 and child comprehension: A case of Korean suffixal passive construction) at the 15th annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (Budapest, Hungary, January…
Congratulations to Dr. Krishni Burns (Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies) for being awarded a Teaching Recognition Program Award by UIC! The Teaching Recognition Program celebrates outstanding teaching at UIC and is a unique…
Congratulations to Dr. Izolda Wolski-Moskoff (Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies) for her work and dedication to the development and promotion of the Polish language abroad! Professor Wolski-Moskoff was honored by the…
Professor Margarita Saona’s (Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies) essay “De monstrous y cyborgs” (more information here) receives rhetorical first honorable mention for non-fiction in the Peruvian National Literature Prize. Congratulations, Professor Saona!
UIC’s Department of Classics was well-represented at the recent Illinois Classical Conference! Dr. Krishni Burns, Senior Lecturer of Latin, presented Iarbas Furens: Decoding Multicultural Insults in Aeneid 4.206-18. Classics student Ava Angele presented…
The 2024 Homerathon was a huge success, with attendees hearing Homer’s Odyssey in Modern Greek, Spanish, and English! The Homerathon is a a two-day reading of the Odyssey in its entirety in English. Listen…
The second volume (out of three) of Michał Markowski’s The Collected Textx 1988-2023, titled Polityka (Politics), contains 57 essays, articles, and extended comments on topics so diverse as Camus and colonialism, Heidegger and nazism, Conrad and…
