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Slavic Graduate Studies at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Welcome to the graduate
program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures currently offers
courses of study leading to the Master
of Arts in Slavic Languages, Literatures, and
Cultures; and the Doctor of Philosophy
in Slavic Languages and Literatures, with emphasis
placed on cultural and interdisciplinary studies
and study in more than one Slavic language and literature.
The faculty of the
UIUC Slavic department represent a broad range of
interests and methodological approaches, including
the intersections of literature and law, medicine,
and psychoanalysis; Russian-Jewish Studies; intellectual
history; gender,  sexuality,
and the body; Stalinist culture; film history and
theory; Czech revival culture; nationalism and literature;
Polish modernism, postmodernism, and visual culture;
exilic and émigré literature; and
East European pop culture. I invite you to consult
the list of faculty and their recent publications
to appreciate the rich variety of their research.
The department regularly
hosts and co-sponsors conferences, which, in the
past few years have included an international conference
on “Reading the Rozanov Corpus in the 21st Century:
Bodies, Texts, and the Russian Body Politic,” June
2003; “ Russian Cinema After Communism,”
February 2004; “Post-Communist
Nostalgia,” 6-7 April 2006; the university Chancellor's
conference "Russia-Business-Politics:
Challenges and Opportunities," October
2006; the Czech
Studies Workshop, 30 March–1 April 2007; the
international conference "Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn as Writer, Mythmaker and Public Figure
in the Twenty-First Century," 14–16 June
2007. This year the department is co-sponsoring
a conference on Interpreting Emotion in East Europe
and Russia, 2008.
The Slavic department
collaborates closely with other UIUC units, such
as the Russian,
East European, and Eurasian Center; the European
Union Center; the History
Department; the Program
in Comparative and World Literature; the Unit
for Cinema Studies; the Unit
for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; the Gender
and Women's Studies Program; the Program
in Jewish Culture and Society; and the Illinois
Program for Research in the Humanities. Graduate
minors or certificates are available in Russian,
East European, and Eurasian Studies; the Unit for
Cinema Studies; the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive
Theory; and the Gender and Women's Studies Program.
We collaborate with
ACTR for study
abroad programs in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and
Vladimir; and with independent study abroad programs
in Prague and Krakow.
If you have any questions
about our graduate program or if there is any way
in which we could be of assistance, please do not
hesitate to contact us:
Harriet
Murav,
Head, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Michael
Finke,
Director of Graduate Studies
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