Zuka’a Joudeh, who double majored in Germanic Studies and Political Science (Class of 2019), reached the finalist stage in the incredibly competitive competition for a Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most prestigious post-graduate…
The Department of French & Francophone Studies has been awarded a Bridge to the Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the field of Francophone Studies through the Office of Diversity and the Office…
Erin Gizewski, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, published the essay “Breaking the Cycle: Establishing a New Feminist Phenomenology within Movement-Image in Maren Ade’s The Forest for the Trees” in Focus on German Studies…
Priya D’Souza, Assistant Director of Faculty Affairs and Academic Affairs for the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics, is being honored with a 2019 UIC Award of Merit. The Award of Merit…
Heidi Schlipphacke, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, has won the Goethe Society of North America prize “for the best essay published in 2018 on Goethe, his times, and/ or contemporary figures.” The essay,…
Elsa Camargo, assistant professor of higher education in the department of Rehabilitation, Human Resources, and Communication Disorders at the University of Arkansas and an alumna of the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies…
Maryann Piel, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, will take part in a workshop on Thomas Mann (“The Mann Family – Lives and Fictions”) at Dartmouth University at which Thomas Mann’s grandson, Frido Mann,…
José Angel Navejas, PhD candidate in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, and author will be featured as a speaker at the upcoming “Feria Latina del Libro.” This event works to promote…
Margarita Saona, Professor and Head of the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, has been invited by Purdue University Northwest to give a talk as part of their CHESS (College of Humanities, Education…
The Jewish Studies program recently hosted Hussein Ibish (senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf State Institute in Washington and weekly columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and The National [UAE]) and David Myers (Sady and Ludwig…
