Student Projects
Media on this page were created by students in Slavic courses as class projects.
Slavic event featured in WILL story
"The Hamlet Syndrome," an award winning documentary by Polish filmmakers Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski, was featured in a screening event on campus on February 6, sponsored by the Slavic Department and library's Slavic Reference Service, with discussion led by Professor Valleri Robinson...
2018
2018's Slavic Department Talent Show took place on Friday, Apr 20. See some of the highlights below.
Murav Wins Heldt Book Prize
Congratulations to Professor Harriet Murav, who was awarded the 2024 Heldt Prize for best book introducing new, innovative, and/or underrepresented perspectives into any area of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies for her book, As The Dust of the Earth: The Literature of...
Finke publishes aviation themed book
Emeritus Professor Michael Finke has published Flights in the Cahier Series of Sylph Editions, which publishes "new explorations in writing, in translating, and in the areas linking these two activities." The beautifully produced small-form book brings together Finke's love of...
Sobol wins BRIDGE grant
Congratulations to Professor Valeria Sobol, who was awarded a BRIDGE grant from the U of I for a collaborative project with the University of Birmingham entitled "Russophone Literary Diversity and Peripheries." Her co-PI from Birmingham is Prof. Natalya Rulyova and she is joined on the grant by...
The Cinema of Poland
Post-WWII Poland has made an indelible contribution to world cinema. This class offers a close examination of the chief currents of modern Polish film including, but not limited to, the cinema of “the Polish School” of the late 1950s and 60s, works by experimental and avant-garde auteurs, satires and parodies of the late-socialist period, historical “large canvas” film, as well as more recent work that addresses the dramas, desires, and discontents of political transition and the aspirations and memory practices of post-communist society. A main focus will be on the oeuvre of Poland’s most...
Slavic Cultural Studies, Kyiv: A Biography of a City
This course traces the historical, social, and artistic development of Kyiv as a city and as an idea from the medieval period to the present day. As we read a variety of literary works and watch several films in which Kyiv figures prominently, we will think about what makes up this city’s “text” and pay special attention to its frequently competing Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and Jewish versions. The course is conducted in English, and all the texts will be available in English translations.