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...

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.”...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...