Professor George Gasyna was interviewed again for the Polish Institute in New York's ongoing Encounters with Polish Literature series on the topic of the author Joseph Conrad. Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the series has turned to exploring some of the many literary connections between...

Yesterday WAND TV interviewed Professor Valeria Sobol and Slavic graduate student Daria Semenova to get their personal perspective on the events unfolding in Ukraine. This was before the invasion commenced. You can watch the segment at...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...