03/15/2021 - Russian opposition leader Alexsei Navalny – the main political opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin who has exposed government corruption – recently was sentenced to more than two years in prison. Navalny survived being poisoned in August, which many believe was a state-ordered...
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03/15/2021 - Professor Valeria Sobol has been selected as LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar for the academic year 2021-2022. Each year, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences awards those faculty that have shown exemplary scholarship and teaching amongst those being promoted to...
12/22/2020 - Professor Harriet Murav's book, David Bergelson’s Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity, published by Indiana University Press, was awarded honorable mention for the Modern Language Association's Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies. The prize is awarded each...
07/24/2020 - Six professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named 2020 Conrad Humanities Scholars. The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award is funded by a gift from the late Arlys Conrad, whose estate gift recognizes mid-career scholars with potential for continued achievement in...
06/18/2020 - Slavic graduate student LeiAnna Hamel has been awarded an ASEEES Summer Dissertation Writing Grant for work on her dissertation, “Undisciplined Bodies: Deviant Female Sexuality in Russian and Yiddish Literatures, 1870s-1930.” Congratulations, LeiAnna, on receiving this highly competitive award!
06/18/2020 - Professor Harriet Murav has been appointed as a Professor in the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois. As the CAS website observes, "CAS Professors are permanent members of the Center, selected from the faculty on the basis of their...
06/18/2020 - This statement was drafted by the Slavic Graduate Students' Association and approved by Slavic Faculty. The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stands united with those all over the nation rightfully...
06/02/2020 - Professor Lilya Kaganovsky is joining The Russian Review, one of the top academic journals in our field, as Associate Editor for Film and Media Studies. Congratulations to Professor Kaganovsky on this important recognition of her expertise and standing in our academic community, and best...
03/12/2020 - In December Richard Tempest, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, published a new book, Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s...
03/03/2020 - Professor Harriet Murav has been awarded an IPRH faculty fellowship for academic year 2020-21 for her book project "Archive of Violence: The Literature of Abandonment and the Russian Civil War."
10/11/2019 - The winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced earlier this month, Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk (born 1962), is one of postcommunist Europe’s most gifted and remarkable writers. Her literary career, which spans two decades, is richly informed by psychoanalysis, feminist discourse,...
10/07/2019 - The Slavic Department is pleased to announce the Vekich Scholar for 2019-20. Mason Conley was selected as this year's winner of the award, which supports study of South Slavic languages by providing textbook materials and making...
10/07/2019 - It is with great sadness that we share the news that our longtime colleague Professor Dmytro Shtohryn passed away on Wednesday, September 25. Born in Ukraine, Professor Shtohryn lived a long and active life and made innumerable contributions to scholarship and to our community over six decades. A...
09/20/2019 - We are delighted to announce that Jasmina Savic has begun her new job as a Lecturer in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona. Jasmina defended her dissertation on August 15 this year, with a thesis titled “Porno Ludens: Soviet Literary Pornography, 1970s-1990s.”...
07/11/2019 - We are delighted to announce that Marina Filipovic has been appointed to a three-year post as Visiting Assistant Professor at William & Mary to teach Russian literature and language starting in August. Marina defended her dissertation on May 28 this year, with a thesis titled “Technologies of...
