Grad. study at Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University  
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) invites applications from  
prospective graduate students pursuing a Ph.D.  The Russian classics  
continue to play a vital role in our program, but our faculty and  
Ph.D. program in Slavic Languages and Literatures also encourage  
interdisciplinary work, including cultural studies approaches and  
comparative Slavic studies.

Qualified students beginning their graduate career will be offered  
five years of financial support (including fellowships, teaching  
assistantships, summer support, research assistantships). We welcome  
applicants who have completed an M.A. in Slavic Languages and  
Literatures (or such related fields as Comparative Literature)  
elsewhere.

In the past five years, the UIUC Slavic department has experienced a  
renaissance.  In addition to the young, exciting scholars who have  
joined the department in this period, affiliate appointments have  
been extended to faculty in departments such as History and Art  
History, facilitating interdisciplinary work. 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, the avant-garde, postmodernism, and  
visual culture; exilic and émigré literature; and East European pop  
culture. We invite you to consult the listing of our faculty, their  
research interests, and their recent publications on the newly  
revised departmental website (http://www.slavic.uiuc.edu/people/).

UIUC has valuable resources for graduate study in the Slavic fields.  
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC), 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 and World Literature, the History Department,  
the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Unit for Jewish  
Studies, and the Unit for Cinema Studies. Departmental collaboration  
with the newly established Center for Translation Studies at UIUC  
offers yet another arena for interdisciplinary research and  
acquisition of credentials complementing the M.A. and Ph.D. in  
Slavic.  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  
and gain experience conducting classes at all levels of Russian,  
Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Serbian and Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish,  
or 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_ or internships with the Dalkey Archive publishing  
house, now located on campus. The Slavic department is also able to  
offer university fellowships and research assistantships to some  
incoming and continuing graduate students. Foreign Language Area  
Study (FLAS) fellowships administered by REEEC and the campus  
European Union Center have 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/

The application deadline is Jan. 1, 2009.  We will continue to  
consider applications after this date on a case-by-case basis, but  
late applicants are likely to have greatly diminished prospects for  
financial support.

Please contact us with questions about our program or the application  
process!

Harriet Murav <hlmurav at illinois.edu>
Head, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Michael Finke <mcfinke at illinois.edu>
Director of Graduate Studies


Michael Finke, Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3072 FLB, MC-170
707 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL  61801

mcfinke at illinois.edu
(217) 244-3068




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