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 since receiving his PhD in 1996. In his current work as a Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESL,...
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 celebration of an excellent year's work from our wonderful students and to celebrate the career and impact...
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 states that she is grateful to be able to continue in her role as Assistant Director of the ESL Program...
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 has received this award for his dissertation research on "A Study of (D)efiniteness and (T)emporality...
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. Click here to learn more.
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 Dr. Anna Mendoza gave an engaging afternoon keynote: "Native Speaker Standard...
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. You can find more information on the...
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! This award...
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 undergraduate students a friendly venue in which they can present and discuss research on any topic...
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 Boundaries, invites us to critically explore and transcend the limits of conventional...
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 Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca “Julio de Urquijo”. The volume will be presented to him on 20...
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 Groups page. Spring 2025 Calendar The links below will take you to the current...
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 MA in Teaching program. Her students will be current and future teachers focusing on ESL education....-
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 Boundaries, invites us to critically explore and transcend the limits of conventional...
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2024-12-21 - We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 17th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS17), which 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 undergraduate students a friendly venue in...