2020-06-18
- 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 protesting to demand an immediate end to police violence against Black people. We join our voices...
- 2020-06-02 - 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 wishes in this responsible position!...
2020-03-12 - In December Richard Tempest, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, published a new book, Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Fictive Worlds (Academic Press), the first full-length study of the...- 2020-03-03 - 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."
2019-10-11 - 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, and the memory of war and ethnic cleansing. Hers is a bright voice calling for dialogue, tolerance,...- 2019-10-07 - 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 leader of Ukrainian studies in the United States, he was Professor of Library Administration at the...
2019-10-07 - 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 available funding for language study in the summer following the academic year. Mason is...- 2019-09-20 - 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.” We wish her all the best in the job and look forward to meeting her as a colleague at conferences!
- 2019-07-11 - 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 Gender: Soviet Literature and Film in the 1920s and 1930s.” We wish her all the best as she begins...
2019-05-09 - Slavic faculty have been busy, and the fruits of their labor are a robust harvest of books. Since the beginning of the year, four books have been published that were authored, edited, and/or translated by Slavic faculty members. Congratulations to Professors Cooper, Ivashkiv, Kaganovsky, and Murav! See our Recent Faculty Books page for more information.- 2019-05-09 - Professor Harriet Murav has been named the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She will also give the address at the SLCL Convocation ceremony on May 11. Professor Lilya Kaganovsky has been named a faculty Associate of the Center for Advanced Study for the 2019-20 academic year. She is working on a book project entitled "The...
- 2019-03-24 - Professor Lilya Kaganovsky has been appointed as a Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar in recognition of her outstanding achievements in her research and leadership role on campus. Richard Romano (BS, ’54, chemical engineering) and his wife, Margaret, established the Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar program.
- 2019-03-24 - Congratulations to Diana Sacilowski, who was awarded a Graduate Student Fellowship at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for the 2019-20 academic year! She joins 6 other graduate students and 7 faculty recipients of the award.
2018-12-17 - Professor Richard Tempest was interviewed on Radio Svoboda on December 10, 2018 for a story on the American reception of writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was in Moscow for a conference dedicated to the writer's centennial. You can read or listen to the interview, in Russian, at the link below. Professor Tempest's book, Overcoming Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Fictive Worlds, will...- 2018-10-25 - On November 8, UIUC is hosting a workshop focused on the Kiev Kultur-Lige, organized by Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh (NYU). The workshop will take place in 109 English Building and is open to the public. This workshop will focus on the Kiev Kultur- Lige in the broad context of parallel developments in Ukrainian culture and literature at the same time. The workshop, organized in the year of...