• Gasyna Interview
    2021-10-06 - Professor George Gasyna was interviewed recently on the topic of the Polish mid-20th century "angry young man" author Marek Hłasko, for a series called "Encounters with Polish Literature" created by the Polish Cultural Institute in New York. With the interviewer, David Goldfarb, they covered...
  • Daria Semenova Wins Summer Dissertation Support
    2021-05-07 - Slavic graduate student Daria Semenova has been awarded a 2021 ASEEES Summer Dissertation Writing Grant in support of her project “At Home and Away: Community Belonging in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Adventure Fiction, 1918-1960.” The competitive grants are funded by donors to ASEEES...
  • Slavic Grad Students Win Dissertation Support
    2021-04-14 - Slavic graduate students LeiAnna Hammel and Daria Semenova are both recipients of competitive support for their dissertation projects. LeiAnna has been named a 2021-22 Program Fellow of the Humanities Research Institute, under the yearly research theme of "Symptoms of Crisis." Her dissertation...
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    Sobol Named LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar
    2021-03-15 - 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...
  • Tempest Interview
    2021-03-15 - 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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    Murav Book Gets MLA Honorable Mention
    2020-12-22 - 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...
  • Gasyna Named Conrad Scholar
    2020-07-24 - 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...
  • Murav appointed CAS Professor
    2020-06-18 - 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...
  • Hamel wins ASEEES Summer Dissertation Grant
    2020-06-18 - 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...
  • Slavic Department Commits to Anti-Racism Work
    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...
  • Slavic Faculty Garner Additional Recognition
    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...
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    Assessing Solzhenitsyn
    2020-03-12 - In December Richard Tempest, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, published a new book, Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr...
  • Slavic Faculty Win Awards
    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." 
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    Polish Author Olga Tokarczuk Wins Nobel Prize
    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,...
  • In Memoriam: Dmytro Shtohryn (1923-2019)
    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...