Slavic Languages and Literatures
Discover the languages, literatures and cultures of Russia and Eastern Europe.
Graduate Funding
The Slavic Department offers competitive financial aid packages for graduate study. Outstanding applicants are eligible for 5-year support packages at a minimum annual stipend of about $18,000, plus health insurance, for a total of about $20,000 yearly or $100,000 in total. For more information, contact our Director of Graduate Studies, Edith Clowes, at .
Edith Clowes Joins UVa Slavic
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The Slavic Department is delighted to welcome Prof. Edith Clowes, formerly of the University of Kansas, who joined the faculty in August 2012. Prof. Clowes is a senior scholar who has published 5 books and edited several others, most recently Fiction's Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy (Cornell, 2004) and Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity (Cornell, 2011). Clowes is also a past winner of major ACLS and NEH grants. At UVa she holds the Brown-Forman Endowed Chair. In the fall semester, Prof. Clowes is teaching RUTR 2460 Civilization and Culture of Russia as well as a graduate course, Russian Postmodernism. |
Karen Ryan Moves to Stetson
Prof. Karen Ryan has left UVa to assume the position of Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Russian at Stetson University. We wish her well in her exciting new endeavors.
Where to Find Us
| Starting Fall 2011, the Slavic Department has relocated for 3 years while Cabell Hall undergoes refurbishment. Faculty are in the small building between Halsey Hall and Maury Hall. Staff and all mailboxes are next door in the basement of Halsey. TA's can be found in both spaces. |
Russian House (Русский Дом)
The Russian House is a Russian-language residential facility for undergraduates and graduate students. It is the hub of cultural and social life for students and faculty affiliated with the Department.
Alternating Tuesdays during the Fall and Spring semesters 7:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. at the Russian House
More on Russian House:
- About, Amenities, Etc.
- Maps to Russian House
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Russian House Application (.pdf, 100KB) - Information Flier (.pdf, 61KB)
Fall 2012 Talks
Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley. "When Nabokov Writes Badly: The Question of Quality and Laughter in the Dark."
Carol Apollonio, Duke University. On the centenary of Constance Garnett's translation of The Brothers Karamazov (1912-2012).
Dennis Christilles, Theater and Film, University of Kansas. "Mixed Language Staging: Orestes in English and Greek." On split-language performances of plays for foreign-language learners.
Spring 2013 Talks
Michael Gorham, University of Florida. March 19, 5:00. Monroe Hall, 124. "Russia’s Digital Revolution: Language, New Media, and the (Un)making of Civil Society."
Melissa Frazier, Sarah Lawrence College. March 26, 5:00. Maury Hall, 115. "Romantic Encounters: Writers, Readers and the Library for Reading." On Romantic intersubjectivity, the literary marketplace, and Sȩkowski/Сенковский's journal Библиотека для чтения.
2013 UVa Slavic Forum Call for Papers: "The Power of Language, the Language of Power" (.pdf, 119KB)
Program of Russian House Events, Spring 2013 (.pdf)
Slavic Film Series Schedule, Spring 2013 (.pdf, 376KB)
Evening of Russian Music with Zolotoy Plyos, 3/31/13 at 5:00 P.M. in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom (.pdf, 164KB)
Resources for Russian Archival Research and Bibliographic Materials (.pdf, 84KB)
UVa Slavic Languages and Literatures Newsletter, Fall 2012 (.pdf, 5.7MB)
Calendar of Russian House Events, Fall 2012 (.pdf, 1.1MB)
Society of Slavic Graduate Students Newsletter Archive
Symposium: The Katyn Massacres of 1940 in History, Memory, Education, and Law
