Undergraduate Advisor: Lilya Kaganovsky

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is a long name for a small, exciting program. Our classes usually have no more than 30 students, which means lots of opportunities for student discussion and lots of individual attention from professors. Students who are interested in philosophy, religion, and literature will want to take our courses on Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Those intrigued by Women's Studies should consider Russian Women Writers. We have a new course on Russian-Jewish life through literature and film. "Fallen Women and Superfluous Men" will be the theme of Valeria Sobol's 19th century Russian literature class. Interested in science fiction? Richard Tempest's gen ed course compares, for example, the film versions of Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris and the recent movie starring George Clooney. Lilya Kaganovsky's film class considers such topics as alien queens, battleships, three-way marriage, tractor musicals, the cult of personality, the undead, teen angst and more. Learn about vampires in our new Slavic Folklore course, taught by David Cooper. Besides Russian you can also take Polish (Prof. George Gasyna, Jack Hutchens and Katarzyna Scislicka), Ukrainian, Czech, Bulgarian, Serbian and Croatian. You don't have to know any of these languages to take our courses.

For more information, contact Richard Tempest, rtempest@uiuc.edu or the undergrad advisor Lilya Kaganovsky, lilya@uiuc.edu.