Associate Professor of French Jennifer Howell will speak November 22 at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) at the University of Oxford about her book, The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity.
Unit: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Guidance pays off for student in Portuguese classes
An update from Alex Gargona, an international business and marketing major with a minor in Spanish. Alex took Portuguese classes offered through the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Editorial cartoons of the Spanish Flu from Spain and the Americas
The Latino Heritage Month’s Brown Bag Lecture will feature Illinois State University Professor Ryan Davis.
Spanish alumna connected with peers, professors
Teacher Kathryn (Katie) Petravick earned her B.A. in Spanish from Illinois State University in 2012.
CAS boasts eight Bone Scholars
Eight students with majors in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have been named 2016-2017 Robert G. Bone Scholars at Illinois State University. They are William Darrow, chemistry and mathematics; Jackie Durnil, communication sciences and disorders; Alexis Econie, sociology and communication; Nora Fredstrom, health sciences and chemistry; Adrianne Howe, psychology; Lauren Koszyk, music and
Sigma Delta Pi named ‘Honor Chapter’
Illinois State University’s Eta Upsilon chapter of Sigma Delta Pi has been named an “Honor Chapter” for exceptional activities in 2015-16.
MIO offers aspiring opera coach world-class training
Not many high school students know they want to be an opera coach. Lauren Koszyk did, and she found out she could become one at Illinois State.
Student receives national Hispanic honor society award
Recent alumna Rita Hess received the prestigious Gabriela Mistral Award from Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society.
A heart for Haiti: Educator helps ‘the least of these’
Jamie Schumacher has made a connection to a place and its people that runs deep like an electric current, which is no small feat in an island nation where electricity can be pretty unreliable.
Introducing Latin American Cinema course
Are you still looking for a class for the fall? Try THE 375: Latin American Cinema, taught by Bruce Burningham, chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.