2018-05-29
- The Vekich Scholar for 2018-19 was announced at the annual Slavic Students' Talent Show in April. Maria Kuo 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.
Maria is majoring in...
2018-05-07 - This summer's IFLIP language program includes the opportunity to study intensive beginning Russian. The Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) is a unique learning opportunity offered during the summer and winter breaks. A fun way to try a new language, the courses are open to members of the University community and to the general public. Classes meet Monday through Friday, two...
2018-02-06 - Dmytro Shtohryn may have retired as a professor at Illinois in 1995, but his commitment to the university and the field of Ukrainian studies remains as vibrant and meaningful as the Ukrainian paintings hanging on the walls of his home. Shtohryn, 94, and his wife, Eustachia, still live in Champaign, where they’ve lived since 1960, when Shtohryn turned down a professional librarianship...- 2017-12-18 - The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is delighted to announce the establishment of the Dmytro Shtohryn Endowment in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Illinois. The fund is intended to benefit the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and will be used to support lectures, symposia, conferences, or presentations in Ukrainian studies. This exciting development is made...
2017-11-13 - Professor Serhiy Kvit of the Kyiv-Mohyla School of Journalism, Ukraine, former president of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (2007-2014) and Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine (2014-2016), visited the UIUC campus on Monday, November 13, 2017.
2017-10-20 - On a hot and sunny Tuesday, September 26, the current head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Professor Valeria Sobol gave a lecture entitled “‘Gloomy Finland’ and the Russian Imperial Gothic.” The talk was a part of REEEC Fall 2017 Noontime Lecture Series, but as Professor Sobol pointed out in her opening remarks, the talk could also fit into the “1917: Ten Days...
2017-08-30 - One hundred years ago, the Russian Revolution “shook the world,” in the words of a famous book. This fall at the University of Illinois, organizers are hoping to “shake the campus,” at least a little, with a series of events reflecting on that anniversary and its legacy. Many other schools have organized programs around the centennial, but the U of I is...
2017-08-18 - For Chad Garland (BA, ’11, Russian language and literature), reporting on the war against ISIS in Iraq requires body armor, bravery, and not a small amount of wits and wisdom—much of which he credits to his days at Illinois as he earned degrees in Russian language and literature and ...
2017-08-16 - Valeria Sobol is replacing Michael Finke as the head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Sobol’s research topics include Russian literature and culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, literature and science, travel literature, and Ukrainian and Czech literatures. Feng Sheng Hu, Harry E. Preble Dean of the...- 2017-01-12 - Congratulations to Irina Avkhimovich, who on January 12, 2017, successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "The Time of Troubles and the Dilemma of National Identity in Russian Historical Drama of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." Irina is currently teaching at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.
2014-02-13 - In the introduction to Jaroslav Rozumnyj’s Twentieth Century Ukrainian Literature, the author writes, “For over forty years, the Ukrainian presence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been synonymous with Dmytro Shtohryn.” Rozumnyj goes on to say that Professor Shtohryn became instrumental in making the U of I one of this continent’s leading research...