2023-03-27
- Following up on the success of last year’s staged reading of Nambi E. Kelly’s Xtigone, Prof. Angeliki Tzanetou has continued a collaboration between the Classics Department, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and the Champaign Central High School, which will culminate with the production of a staged reading of Luis Alfaro's Electricidad on Friday, March 31, at 6:30 p.m...
- 2023-03-27 - UIUC undergraduates, Tallulah Trezevant and Stefanie Morrison, presented research papers at the 95th Annual Eta Sigma Phi Classics Honors Society Convention that took place at Monmouth College (March 24-26, 2023). Tallulah presented on “Living Properly: Depictions of Slavery in Roman New Comedy” and Stefanie on “Imperator Mutationis: Stylistic Changes in Neronian Rome.” Both...
- 2023-03-20 - Prof. Craig Williams recently gave the keynote lecture at the 27th annual University of Virginia Classics graduate student colloquium (Charlottesville VA, March 18, 2023). This year's colloquium was on the theme "Indigeneity and the Greco-Roman World: Modern and Ancient Responses," and Prof. Williams' lecture was entitled "Not A Song Of Golden Greek: Native American Writers, Greco-Roman Antiquity...
- 2023-03-10 - Classics graduate student Ky Merkley has been awarded a 2023-2024 fellowship at the university's Humanities Research Institute. Merkley, who is writing a PhD dissertation entitled "Trans History From Antiquity For Today: Reading Gender in the Literature of the Roman Empire," is one of three SLCL grad students and faculty awarded this prestigious fellowship. For further information:...
- 2023-01-23 - In partnership with Radboud University and Anchoring Innovation (Netherlands), Newcastle University (UK), and St. Andrews University (UK), Prof. Augoustakis represented the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign co-organizing an international conference in Rome “The Damned Despot: Rethinking Domitian and the...
- 2022-12-13 - Ky Merkley receives 2022 Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award Link to story on SLCL website, including video: https://slcl.illinois.edu/news/2022-12-15/classics-graduate-student-recognized-dedication-diversity-equity-and-inclusion "Trans in...
- 2022-12-13 - The most recent issue of Illinois Classical Studies, an international peer-reviewed journal housed in the department since 1976, has been published: Volume 47.1 (Spring 2022), edited by Angeliki Tzanetou. Link to journal website: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id=ics
- 2022-12-13 - Prof. Augoustakis was recently interviewed by Dania de la Hoyas, Communication Coordinator for SLCL. Here is the interview: https://slcl.illinois.edu/news/2022-12-12/classics-professor-balances-leadership-role-teaching-and-publication-four-new-books
- 2022-10-14 - New Book by Prof. Augoustakis
- 2022-09-14 - Professor Brett Kaufman receives Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professor (LEAP) award
- 2022-09-07 - Professor Williams publishes article on Native American writers and the Latin language
- 2022-09-01 - New book by Professor Antony Augoustakis
- 2022-05-09 - New Book By Professor Antony Augoustakis
- 2022-04-22 - Classics graduate student Ky Merkley has been selected as a 2022 recipient of the Xiaohui Zhang Diversity and Community Engagement Award given by the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics. The award recognizes Ky’s creation of “Trans in Classics,” a community organization dedicated to supporting and foregrounding trans scholars and scholarship in the field of Classics. ...
- 2022-04-04 - George Reveliotis, BA LAS 96, donor of the Classics $1.5 million Endowment in Hellenic Studies (2019) and recipient of the LAS Quadrangle Award (2020) received the 2020 Special Service award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South at the association’s annual meeting held this year in person at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. Prof. Augoustakis from Classics read...