Slavic Graduate Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

[Lilya Kaganovsky]

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University  
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, invites prospective graduate students  
to apply to our program. We offer an M.A. in Russian Literature and  
Culture and a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, with  
emphasis placed on cultural and interdisciplinary studies and study  
in more than one Slavic field.

In the past five years, the UIUC Slavic department has experienced a  
renaissance and we are excited about the new opportunities we can  
offer to our graduate students. Most recently, we have welcomed  
Professors David Cooper, Michael Finke, and George Gasyna to the  
faculty at UIUC, as well as extended affiliate appointments to  
faculty in History and Art History. The faculty of the UIUC Slavic  
department represent a broad range of interests and methodological  
approaches, including the intersections of literature and law,  
medicine, and psychoanalysis; Russian-Jewish Studies; intellectual  
history; gender, sexuality, and the body; Stalinist culture; film  
history and theory; Czech revival culture; nationalism and  
literature; Polish modernism, postmodernism, and visual culture;  
exilic and émigré literature; and East European pop culture. We  
invite you to consult our list of faculty and their recent  
publications to appreciate the rich variety of their research (http:// 
www.slavic.uiuc.edu/people/).

The University of Illinois has valuable resources for graduate study  
in the Slavic fields. The Russian, East European, and Eurasian  
Center, a federally-funded national resource center established in  
1959, sponsors a variety of programs—including the annual Summer  
Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia—and funds  
graduate student conference travel and fellowships. The Slavic  
Library is home to the third largest collection in North America and  
is the central resource for the Summer Research Lab. We also maintain  
close ties with the Program in Comparative Literature, the History  
Department, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Unit  
for Jewish Studies, and the Unit for Cinema Studies. The department  
regularly hosts and co-sponsors conferences and participates actively  
in cross-campus and interdisciplinary initiatives.

Most students admitted to the program receive teaching  
assistantships, which include all levels of Russian, Polish,  
Ukrainian, Czech, Serbian and Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish, and  
Turkish. There are also opportunities to teach undergraduate  
literature and culture courses. Some students gain an insider’s  
perspective on scholarly publishing through editorial assistantships  
at Slavic Review. The Slavic department is also able to offer  
university fellowships and research assistantships to some incoming  
and continuing graduate students. The Foreign Language Area Study  
(FLAS) fellowship administered by the Russian, East European, and  
Eurasian Center has consistently provided our graduate students with  
funding for both introductory and advanced training in Slavic  
languages. University scholarships are available to minority  
students. UIUC also offers competitive on-campus and off-campus  
dissertation fellowships.

To learn more about the opportunities and resources at UIUC and to  
learn how to apply, please visit our website (http:// 
www.slavic.uiuc.edu/graduate/).

If you have any questions about our graduate program or if there is  
any way in which we could be of assistance, please do not hesitate to  
contact us:

Richard Tempest (rtempest at uiuc.edu),
Acting Head, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

George Gasyna (ggasyna at uiuc.edu),
Director of Graduate Studies

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