Upcoming Events
"Translating the Middle Ages" Co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies and the new Center for Translation Studies, this international conference brings together medievalists whose scholarship focuses on the theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages or on the cultural transfer of medieval images and ideologies. Renowned poets W. S. Merwin and Robert Pinsky will read from and discuss their translations of Dante's Divine Comedy at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
Conference: Illini Union, Room 210, October 28-29 (free and open to the public)
CultureTalk event: Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, October 28, 7:30 p.m.
(free, tickets required)
Details on future events will be posted as they become available.
Go to the FLB Events Calendar for information about other upcoming events.
News
New Faculty! The Department welcomes Patrick Bray.
Assistant Professor Patrick Bray joins the Department of French this August, after spending two years as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in nineteenth century French literature and in French cinema. A specialist in nineteenth-century French narrative, he also has research interests in critical theory (particularly spatial theory), aesthetic discourse, autobiography, cinema, and poetry. He is delighted to return to UIUC, where he served as Visiting Assistant Professor in 2005-6.
Prof Bray holds Ph.D. and A.M. degrees from Harvard University in Romance Languages and Literatures and a B.A. in Romance Studies from Cornell University. He has also studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and the University of Paris, and he has participated in the Institute of French Cultural Studies at Dartmouth College and the Institut d'études françaises in Avignon.
This Fall, he will be teaching French 530, "Introduction to Research and Textual Analysis," and French 208 "Critical Writing and Reading."
Links to other news
- Weekly Newsletter
Keep up with the latest information from the department. Updated weekly with announcements, guest lecturers, and news of interest to members and friends of the French Department. - The French Cinéclub offers monthly showings of subtitled francophone films, free and open to the public.
- The French Connection, Alumni Newsletter
This annual bulletin will keep you informed of current research, projects, and general information of the UIUC French Department. - Nineteenth Century French Studies Archive
- Some helpful links outside of the UIUC French Department