2021-02-10
- Assistant Professor Krystal Small was named an AAA star in Linguistic Anthropology. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Smalls!
https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2021/01/29/stars-from-the-aaa-sections/
- 2021-02-10 - Congratulations to Karla Sanabria-Véaz for being one of the invited speakers at the Illinois TESOL Bilingual Education (ITBE) conference this year! The conference will be held on February 27th. Please see https://itbe.org/...
- 2021-01-25 - For her work on syntactic effects on tone in the Nilo-Saharan language Dholuo, Aida Talić has been appointed by the selection committee of the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) as a Fellow in the Center during the 2021-2022 academic year. Congratulations, Dr. Talić!
- 2021-01-22 - Friends, A happy New Year and semester to everyone! As much as we had hoped for a return to some semblance of ‘normal’, it seems that the Spring semester will be pretty much a repeat of Fall 2020. I know this places continued and perhaps new pressures on many of us who have already been impacted adversely by covid-19. So my heartfelt appreciation goes out to faculty, staff...
- 2020-12-21 - For her work on syntactic effects on tone in the Nilo-Saharan language Dholuo, Aida Talić has been recommended by the selection committee of the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for appointment as a Fellow in the Center during the 2021-2022 academic year. Her appointment is now pending approval from the U of I Board of Trustees in January.
- 2020-10-26 - Dr. Rakesh Bhatt, professor of linguistics and SLATE, has been appointed as editor for the upcoming book series Multilingualism in the Global South (Palgrave MacMillan).
- 2020-08-27 - Dr. Fred Davidson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, will deliver the Alan Davies Lecture at the Language Testing Research Colloquium. The conference is scheduled to be held in Tunisia in June of 2021. His talk is entitled Describing the language construct. Please see here...
- 2020-08-24 - Dear friends, I would like to welcome you (back) to a new semester and academic year, which will surely be one to remember. I hope you are staying safe and well and that your summer has been rejuvenating and productive. We won’t be able to get together for our traditional welcome reception, but I do hope to connect with you in some form before not too long. I thank the faculty...
- 2020-08-14 - Congratulations to Anna, her advisor (Kiel), and the dissertation committee members on being awarded the NSF dissertation research improvement grant. .
2020-08-14 - Ryan Shosted, Professor of Linguistics, has worked extensively with the Maya community since arriving in Champaign in 2007, helping to raise awareness about their native language of Q’anjob’al in the C-U community. The Illinois Maya Initiative plans to connect researchers, community social service professionals, and a growing community of Mayan immigrants and refugees in East...- 2020-08-13 - Linguistics PhD Students The new student orientation for incoming Linguistics PhD students will take place on August 19th at 9 AM via Zoom. All members of the department are welcome to drop in and introduce themselves! Please contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Tania Ionin, to receive the Zoom link. Please click...
- 2020-08-11 - Taraneh Sanei’s paper "Normativity, Power, and Agency: On the Chronotopic Organization of Orthographic Conventions on Social Media," has been accepted for publication in the premier journal in sociolinguistics, Language and Society. Congratulations, Taraneh!
- 2020-06-18 - On Monday, June 15, 2020, Department of Linguistics and LCTL program welcomed 104 students to the Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World, held virtually this year from June 15 to August 8. The program consists of 2 intensive summer sessions, when students are immersed in language instructions in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Swahili. SILMW provides a unique opportunity to explore the...
- Congratulations to Dee Ann Bates and team for winning the Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award!2020-06-03 - Congratulations to Office Managers Ellen Lindsey (CWL and Religion), Dee Ann Bates (Linguistics), Katie Walker (Spanish and SLATE) and Jessica Smith (Classics, Translation and Interpreting Studies and Medieval Studies) for winning the Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award. The nominations stated: "In a time of unprecedented turnover and transition (Fall 2019) ...
- 2020-05-19 - Congratulations to Dr. Eman Saadah on being recognized with an Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence award "Dr. Saadah makes the challenge of learning a language such as Arabic seem simple and attainable. Her passion for the Arabic language and culture is infectious and visible in all aspects of her teaching. Saadah invests deeply within her students through constant efforts...