2026-05-20 - The growth of Ukrainian Studies on campus caught the attention of the Daily Illini. You are invited to read the feature here. Learn more about the...

2026-05-12 - The annual Slavic talent show and awards ceremony on April 30 celebrated the achievements of our students. Once again this year, a large number of awards  were won by Slavic language students, from national awards and honor society memberships to local scholarships and fellowships. ...

2026-03-05 - The Slavic Department was recently featured in the student-produced news feature program "The Quad." Student journalist Aaron Anastos produced the segment, featuring interviews with Slavic major Louise Shannon and Professor David Cooper. You can view the segment on...

2025-11-28 - On September 28, 2025, REEEC, the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, and the Ukrainian Studies Fund hosted a public engagement event in Chicago at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. This event raised over $50,000 in support of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Illinois...

2025-11-28 - Breaking: the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics has published a great feature on Prof Dimitrova, entitled "Bulgarian is magnetic. "As a part of the...

2025-05-06 - The annual Slavic talent show and awards ceremony on May 1 showcased a large number of awards won by Slavic language students, from national awards and honor society memberships to local scholarships and fellowships. ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay ContestU of I students made a...

2025-04-29 - Congratulations to Prof. Valleri Robinson (Theatre), who has received a 2025-2026 U.S. Scholar Fulbright to develop the book, “Directing in Context: Javor Gardev’s Theatre of Vulnerability, 1994-2024.” Gardev’s theoretically robust theatrical contributions began with his daring directorial...

2025-02-25 - "The Hamlet Syndrome," an award winning documentary by Polish filmmakers Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski, was featured in a screening event on campus on February 6, sponsored by the Slavic Department and library's Slavic Reference Service, with discussion led by Professor Valleri Robinson...

2024-12-02 - Congratulations to Professor Harriet Murav, who was awarded the 2024 Heldt Prize for best book introducing new, innovative, and/or underrepresented perspectives into any area of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies for her book, As The Dust of the Earth: The Literature of...

2024-10-17 - Emeritus Professor Michael Finke has published Flights in the Cahier Series of Sylph Editions, which publishes "new explorations in writing, in translating, and in the areas linking these two activities." The beautifully produced small-form book brings together Finke's love of...

2024-07-09 - Congratulations to Professor Valeria Sobol, who was awarded a BRIDGE grant from the U of I for a collaborative project with the University of Birmingham entitled "Russophone Literary Diversity and Peripheries." Her co-PI from Birmingham is Prof. Natalya Rulyova and she is joined on the grant by...

2023-12-13 - The publication of Slavic Department Head David Cooper's The Czech Manuscripts was celebrated by the University of Illinois with a front-page story by Jodi Heckel on December 12. The full story can be found here (or by...

2023-10-23 - Professor Harriet Murav appeared with Dr. Gennady Estraikh on The New Books in Jewish Studies Podcast with host Ari Barbalat to discuss their work Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering. As referenced by the podcast creators, Murav and Estraikh's 2019 Academic...

2023-10-16 - Slavic Department graduate student Sergei Motov was awarded “judge’s choice” in NYU Jordan Center’s Graduate Student Essay Competition. The competition called for essays in cultural criticism, public-facing treatments of scholarly...

2023-10-04 - Slavic Department Head David Cooper appeared on The Slavic Connexion podcast to discuss his recent book, The Czech Manuscripts: Forgery, Translation, and National Myth (Cornell,...