Ellie (Eleanor) Brannaman produced an interactive art map of French and Francophone artists for 4th semester French BLP students to contribute to and engage with.
Emily Kubaitis used a digital archive of written correspondence between generations of the same French family in the late 19th century to learn how informal correspondence among friends and family members can offer insight into an unfamiliar, historically distant way of life.
Rebecca Williamson won second prize for undergraduate research in the Humanities category at UIC's Research Forum for her project: "Morality and Politics during the French Revolution: an In-Depth Analysis of Robespierre’s Political Speeches before and during the Reign of Terror."
Caila Dela Cruz researched the innovative theater of the French playwright Liliane Atlan to examine how a theatrical framework can be used to help us better understand the Holocaust experience of children.
Jessica Thornton's research project integrates the virtual world into that of the text as a supplementary vehicle of access into the insight and knowledge available in the humanities. In linking the two, we are concerned with the relationship of the individual and society through place, how these locations are expressed in the text and their general and particular cultural impacts. By mapping the locations from a text, and enriching each local profile with pins to add pertinent information and photographs, we have been able to recreate the world of the text; becoming capable of virtually voyaging into that world.
Rebecca Steenstrup created online student surveys to explore ways to help intermediate French students write more effectively, focusing on student preferences for tutors, print, and online resources as well as on collaborations with student peers.
