08/17/2023 - Professor Harriet Murav, with her collaborator Sasha Senderovich of the University of Washington, has won a prestigious NEH Scholarly Translations and Editions Award for their work on the volume In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union. Together...
News
07/21/2023 - Professor Richard Tempest was interviewed by the Illinois News Bureau regarding the insurrection of Prigozhin's Wagner Group in Russia. Tempest provides background on the Wagner Group and Prigozhin. You can read the full interview with his analysis of the consequences...
07/12/2023 - Professor Peter Wright has been selected as a 2023-24 Fulbright Scholar for Croatia. He will conduct research there in the Fall semester for his book project, entitled The Business of Solidarity. Fulbright Scholar Awards are prestigious and competitive fellowships that provide unique...
03/17/2023 - Congratulations to Professor Valeria Sobol, who has been designated as a recipient of both the campus and LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching! You can read the full...
06/30/2022 - Graduate Student Tyler Dolan has been awarded an ASEEES Summer Dissertation Writing Grant for summer 2022. The grants are funded by ASEEES donors and members and offer up to $6000 grants for dissertation writing on any aspect of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies in any discipline....
06/30/2022 - Professor George Gasyna was interviewed again for the Polish Institute in New York's ongoing Encounters with Polish Literature series on the topic of the author Joseph Conrad. Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the series has turned to exploring some of the many literary connections between...
05/16/2022 - Professor Eugene Avrutin (History, affiliate with Slavic) has published an important new study of the history of race and racism in Russia with Bloomsbury. Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to Putin examines the developing scientific and popular discourses on race in Russia over...
03/04/2022 - Slavic Review, the leading journal in Slavic Studies, edited by Harriet Murav, is hosting a discussion forum with short pieces by experts addressing aspects of the war in Ukraine. We encourage readers to follow the developing discussion...
02/28/2022 - The SGSA along with the Slavic Department and REEEC also condemns the unprovoked military assault by the Russian government on Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. We, the SGSA, reject the false narrative that the Russian government has built to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty. In times of crisis...
02/28/2022 - A large crowd rallied at the Alma Mater on campus on Sunday at noon to show support for Ukraine in an event organized by the Ukrainian Students Association. Many Slavic students, grad students, faculty members, and friends attended to manifest their opposition to the Russian invasion. Student...
02/25/2022 - The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign We Condemn the Military Assault on Ukraine The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the home of many scholars and students who...
02/24/2022 - Yesterday WAND TV interviewed Professor Valeria Sobol and Slavic graduate student Daria Semenova to get their personal perspective on the events unfolding in Ukraine. This was before the invasion commenced. You can watch the segment at...
12/09/2021 - Congratulations are due to Professor Emeritus Finke on his new book, Freedom from Violence and Lies: Anton Chekhov's Life and Writings, just out from Reaktion Books! The book is described as "An excellent resource for readers new to Chekhov [that] also presents much original scholarship...
11/22/2021 - Lilya Kaganovsky, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has received an NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Stipend for her project, “Fifty Years of Soviet Women’s...
10/29/2021 - Here is a link to the latest department newsletter. If you have news for the next newsletter, please send it to the Department Head, Prof Valeria Sobol.
