Slavic Languages and Literatures
Discover the languages, literatures and cultures of Russia and Eastern Europe.
Edith Clowes Joins UVa Slavic
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The Slavic Department is delighted to welcome Prof. Edith Clowes, currently at Kansas, who will join the faculty in fall 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 will hold the Brown-Forman Endowed Chair. In the fall semester, Prof. Clowes will be teaching RUTR 2460 Civilization and Culture of Russia as well as a graduate course, Russian Postmodernism. |
Graduate Funding
The Slavic Department has begun offering competitive new 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). For more information, contact our Director of Graduate Studies, Katia Dianina, at .
Where to Find Us
| Starting Fall 2011, the Slavic Department has relocated for 2-3 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, 129KB)
Slavic Film Series (.pdf, 78KB)
Alternating Mondays and Wednesdays during the Fall and Spring semesters at 7:00 P.M. in 321 Clemons Library
Spring 2012 Talks
Edith Clowes, University of Kansas. “Mapping the Unconscious in Notes from Underground and On the Genealogy of Morals: A Reconsideration of Modern Moral Consciousness”
Anne Lounsbery, New York University. "Geography in/and War & Peace."
Eliot Borenstein, New York University. "Soviet Self-Hatred: Sovok, Kitsch, and the Empire of Yokels."
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 Constance Garnett's translation of The Brothers Karamazov (1912-2012).
University of Virginia Slavic Forum 2011 (.pdf, 912KB)
SSGS Newsletter Fall 2011 (.pdf, 247.7MB)