2025-04-29 - On May 9th and 10th, the Nominals and Nominalizations in Korean and Beyond Workshop will be held in the LCLB. This workshop will showcase research that address currently debated issues in the morphology, syntax, and semantics-pragmatics of nominals and nominalizations in Korean and other languages...
2025-04-21 - We are pleased to announce that Dr. John Levis, who received a MATESL degree as well as a PhD in Educational Psychology from UIUC, has been named Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University. John has led a distinguished career...
2025-04-17 - We cordially invite you to the Department of Linguistics Year-End Graduation, & Awards Ceremony along with a Retirement Celebration for Professor Peter Lasersohn! This event will take place in the Heritage Room of the ACES Library on Wednesday, May 7, from 4pm - 5:30pm.Join us in...
2025-04-16 - The LAS Academy for Educational Excellence is a new initiative from the College of Liberal Arts & Science, set to launch in Fall 2025.This past January, our own Cassandra Rosado started a new part-time role as the LAS Dean's Fellow for the Academy for Educational Excellence. She...
2025-04-10 - We are pleased to announce that Linguistics PhD candidates Huiying Cai and Joshua Dees are recipients of the 2025 SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship. These fellowships provide advanced doctoral students with an academic year of support to complete their dissertations. Joshua Dees...
2025-03-24 - The department of Linguistics is hiring an Instructor/Visiting Assistant Professor in Semantics/Pragmatics for AY 25-26, with possibility of renewal. See position details and how to apply at link below. Application deadline is April 25th, 2025....
2025-03-05 - This year, the 50th annual Illinois TESOL-Bilingual Education (ITBE) conference took place with the theme "Innovate to Educate: New Horizons in Language Teaching." Many students, faculty, and alumni from UIUC's Linguistics, MATESOL, and ESL programs played a role in the conference. UIUC's own...
2025-03-04 - We are excited to announce that UIUC will host Nominals and Nominalizations in Korean and Beyond - a workshop addressing a variety of currently debated issues in morphology, syntax, and semantics-pragmatics. This two-day event will take place May 9–10, 2025....
2025-02-18 - Congratulations to Dr. Eman Saadah, who has not only been selected for LAS Dean’s Award in Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, but also for the campus level award: the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching!...
2025-02-14 - The 17th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS17) will be held from March 7-8, 2025 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ILLS is an annual graduate student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate and advanced...
2025-02-08 - The 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrates a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry. This milestone symposium, with the theme Expanding Horizons: A Sociolinguistics Beyond...
2025-01-29 - José Ignacio Hualde, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, has been honored with a two-volume festschrift, Hualderen omenaldia ("Hualde's Tribute"). The festschrift has been edited by Julen Manterola, Joseba Lakarra, and Gorka Elordieta and was published in the...
2025-01-29 - We are excited to welcome back many reading groups this semester! If you are considering joining a new reading group, please take a look at the groups below, or learn more on our Reading and Discussion...
2025-01-20 - We are excited to announce that PhD candidate Elizabeth King accepted a faculty position in the School of Education at Asbury University, a liberal arts college in Kentucky. She will be an Assistant Professor of ESL teaching in their traditional undergraduate P-12 education major, MA program, and...-
2024-12-21 - The 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrates a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry. This milestone symposium, with the theme Expanding Horizons: A Sociolinguistics Beyond...