2026-08-31 - The Ukrainian Studies Initiative is pleased to announce the first competition for Ukrainian Studies scholarships! Thanks to the assistance of the Ukrainian Studies Fund and the generosity of the Ukrainian community in Chicago, we can now offer $1000...

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...

2023-08-17 - 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. ...

2023-07-21 - 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...

2023-07-12 - 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...