2023-11-27
- Howard Jacobson, long-time Classics faculty member, passed away on Wednesday, November 22, at the age of 83. A memorial service was held in Silver Springs, Maryland on Friday, November 24. He was a loving and devoted husband, brother, father, father in law, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Respected scholar of the classics and a professor at the University of Illinois since 1968, he...
- 2023-11-13 - Dan Leon, Associate Professor in the Classics Department, is a member of the joint committee of the American Classical League and the Society for Classical Studies charged with revising the 2010 Standards for Latin Teacher Preparation. The committee has recently published the new Guidelines for Latin Teacher Preparation. For further information:...
- 2023-11-01 - Students take to Athens for service-learning course with help of Reveliotis Scholarship. For more information, click here.
2023-09-25 - Professor Antony Augoustakis co-edits volume on the poetics of Statius’ Silvae with Prof. Carole Newlands (University of Colorado Boulder) in honor of M. C. J. Putnam’s (Brown University) 90th birthday. The book was published this month by Oxford University Press. Information can be found here (...
2023-08-23 - Kostas Arampapaslis (Ph.D. Classical Philology, 2019), Stephen Froedge (Ph.D. Classical Philology, 2020), Clayton Schroer (Ph.D. Classical Philology, 2020) co-edited a volume on the Dynamics of Marginality: Liminal Characters and Marginal Groups in Neronian and Flavian Literature (Berlin, 2023). More...- 2023-07-28 - Through the "Illinois in Athens" program, administered by LAS International Programs in cooperation with the Classics Department, Illinois students can spend the Fall, Spring, or the entire academic year in one of the most exciting cities in Europe while earning credit toward their UIUC degree. Students from all UIUC colleges and majors are welcome. The program centers on a humanities and social...
- 2023-07-14 - The Classics Department is accepting applications for the M.A. in the Teaching of Latin program to start in the spring semester of 2024. The deadline for full consideration for financial aid is September 30, 2023. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. See our Masters Program (...
- 2023-05-25 - On a beautiful Illinois spring day, Classics Department graduate Teaching Assistants Eleonora Mylli and Panagiotis Sotiroudis took students in their discussion sections of the popular lecture course CLCV 115 (Greek and Roman Mythology) out of the classroom and to the Krannert Center’s outdoor amphitheatre for some active learning. After a brief introduction to Greek drama, students had the...
2023-04-27 - Prof. Craig Williams was recently honored with a Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellowship in the Humanities Council and Department of Classics at Princeton University. While visiting Princeton, he gave a workshop for graduate students and delivered a public lecture on April 20, entitled "'Our Muses Are Our Ancestors': Contemporary Indigenous Writers of North America and Greco-Roman Antiquity," co-...
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...