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Julianne Angeli (MA) is admitted with full funding to the French PhD programs
Join us on congratulating Julianne Angeli (MA) for being admitted with full funding to the French PhD programs at Princeton University, Duke University, Washington University in Saint-Louis, and the Universities of Wisconsin and…
Stephanie Beauval (MA) presents a paper at Newberry Library’s 2023 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Stephanie Beauval (MA) presented a paper at Newberry Library’s 2023 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference.
Congrats to Aisha Craig
Please join the French Department and LCSL in congratulating Aisha Craig (MA) who was admitted to PhD programs at UIUC and Indiana!   Great job!
Yann Robert at Washington University in St. Louis
The First Vigilante: Natural Law, Slavery, and the Killer Cobbler: A Salon discussion with Associate Professor Yann Robert from the University of Illinois at Chicago The Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon presents Yann Robert, Associate…
Congrats to Yann Robert!
Please join us in congratulating Yann Robert who has been elected as President of the Society of Eighteenth-Century French Studies!    
French Students as In/Between 2022 Presenters
Please join me in congratulating David DeGooyer, Ley Frank, and Mary Connolly for their wonderful presentation in the In/Between 2022 Conference.   Well done!
2021 Sweetser Prize awarded to Degooyer, Liberius, and Perez
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…
McClure's co-edited "Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy" out now
The Modern Language Association has just published a new co-edited volume by Ellen McClure, UIC Professor of French and History, and Hélène Bilis, Associate Professor of French at Wellesley College. Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy…
New translation and edition by John Ireland
Congratulations to John Ireland, Associate Professor and Head of French and Francophone Studies, whose translation and critical edition of Algerian playwright Noureddine Aba’s La Récréation des clowns (Clowns at Play) has just been…
Nemsick, Ellis, and Tinel invited to join Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to French majors Nikki Nemsick, Hannah Ellis, and Luke Tinel for having received an invitation to join the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa!