Giedrius Subačius, Professor and Endowed Chair in Lithuanian Studies, has published his second volume on Simonas Daukantas’s orthography. Simon Daukanto: Sankt Peterburgo ortografija (1834-1846) (2022, Vilnius: Institute of Lithuanian History) represents a continuation…
UIC’s Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature, Michał Markowski, contributed an essay “Indomitable Boredom Above the Entire World: Gombrowicz (and Other Polish Writers) on Existential Predicament” to the…
The graduate students of the UIC Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies are once again collaborating with their colleagues at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University to organize the Chicago Graduate Conference…
Junaid Quadri, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Program in Religious Studies, recently published a new book with Oxford University Press. Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity examines the…
The journal Archivum Lithuanicum, edited by Giedrius Subačius, endowed Chair in Lithuanian Studies at UIC, has received a grant of $57,000.00 from the Scientific Council of Lithuania. This grant is to cover expenses…
Margarita Saona’s book of short fiction, La ciudad en que no estás (Lima, 2021), has been nominated for the 2021 Luces Award in the short story category. This award is sponsored by El…
The Hungarian Academy of the Arts (Magyar Művészeti Akadémia) has recently published a translation of Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature, Michał Markowski’s Anatomia ciekawości (The Anatomy of…
Lidia Aguilera Lora and Megan Marshall, both PhD students in Hispanic Linguistics, have been awarded the Provost’s Graduate Research Award. This annual “seed funding” competition helps students to develop stronger applications for funding…
Congratulations to Sonya Gupta, a senior majoring in Russian and biological sciences, on being a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and one of the most prestigious international scholarships in the world!…
The Department of French and Francophone Studies is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Marie-Odile Sweetser Prize for excellence in French Studies: David Degooyer, Laurie Liberius, and Leila Perez. The Sweetser…
