Chiara Fabbian, Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Italian program, has been elected Italian Convener for the American Association University Supervisor and Coordinators (AAUSC).
The Daily Southtown newspaper features a profile of 2019 UIC grad and Fulbright finalist Zuka’a Joudeh, who earned bachelor’s degrees in political science and Germanic studies, for her work to support refugees in…
Four PhD candidates in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies recently successfully defended their dissertations. Yanire Márquez – dissertation: “Shattering the Limits of Visual Cinema: Haptic and Sensorial Visuality in Spanish Women…
All three PhD candidates in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures who went on the job market this year have successfully landed job offers! Agnieszka Jezyk, who recently defended her…
While witnessing and reading media reports about the influx of Syrian refugees to Germany and prepared with years of German language studies dating back to high school, UIC student Zuka’a Joudeh was inspired…
University of Illinois at Chicago sophomore Luana Davila of Joliet has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Morocco this summer. Davila, who is a classics…
Growing up in Mount Airy, Maryland, Frankee Lyons believed her ancestors came from Ireland and England. In high school and college, Eastern Europe, Jewish history and the Holocaust became areas of intellectual interest…
Congratulations to Zinon Papakonstantinou, Associate Professor of Classics, on the official release of his new book Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece, with Routledge. From the publisher: From the eighth century BCE to…
The Department of Germanic Studies has been awarded a grant from the Provost and the University Library to transform their German curriculum using Open Education Resources. This will help make language study more…
