Grad. study at Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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PLEASE POST:

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:// <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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