Heartful congratulations to French major Hannah Ellis, who has been admitted with generous scholarships to several top-ranked law schools in the US! Starting this Fall, she’ll study International Law at George Washington University.
Abigail Zurita-Calvario, an Honors College senior majoring in political science and Spanish and minoring in French, was recently awarded a U.S. State Department Benjamin A. Gilman scholarship for study abroad. This award aims…
The Department of French and Francophone Studies is delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Marie-Odile Sweetser Prize for excellence in French Studies: French club president Emily Kubaitis. The Sweetser Prize is…
Please congratulate Hannah Martin-O’Brien (current MA student) for winning a Provost’s Graduate Internship Award! Hannah will be studying, translating, and contextualizing early modern French pamphlets at the Newberry Library this summer.
Pedro Antonino, an MA student in French and Francophone Studies who will complete his degree in May 2020 has been named a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant for the upcoming academic year. Pedro will…
Jessica Thornton has recently been recommended for promotion to Senior Lecturer. This recommendation, which is currently before the University Board of Trustees, reflects Jessica’s ongoing commitment to students in the French program at…
The Department of French and Francophone Studies is pleased to announce the following successes of current and former students of its M.A. program. Amy Rosario, who is finishing her M.A. in May, will…
Ellen McClure, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and History, and Director of UIC’s Engaged Humanities Initiative, has recently published a new book. The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-Century French Literature, looks at…
Yann Robert, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, has been named as one of six Faculty Fellows at the UIC Institute for the Humanities as part of their thirty-eighth group of fellows.…
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…