PhD opportunities in the Russia field at New York University (ISR)

[Anne Lounsbery]

New York University's Department of Russian & Slavic Studies is pleased to
announce a fully-funded field of doctoral study in Comparative Literature or
History: 

 

THE INTERDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL SPECIALIZATION IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE,
HISTORY, AND CULTURE (ISR)

 

Applications will be considered in Fall 2009 for study beginning in Fall
2010 with a five-year full-funding support package. Candidates should apply
either through NYU's Department of Comparative Literature or through the
History Department, specifying their interest in ISR.

 

 

ABOUT THE COURSE OF STUDY:

 

Students will have the option of earning the PhD in either Comparative
Literature or History, thereby providing for a strong grounding within a
discipline while also encouraging the kind of innovative work made possible
by disciplinary cross-over. In addition to pursuing coursework in the chosen
department, students will have the opportunity to take classes in the
Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, including specially-designed
interdisciplinary seminars. The curriculum will be structured to take
advantage of intellectual resources for the study of Russia across NYU--not
only in the Departments of Russian & Slavic Studies, History, and
Comparative Literature, but also in Anthropology, Music, Politics, Hebrew
and Judaic Studies, and others.

 

Our curriculum will allow graduate students in Comparative Literature and
History to develop a coherent focus on Russia within their discipline of
choice. We aim to encourage a broad understanding of the field, taking
account of the various contexts in which Russia can be studied. With our
faculty's expertise in cross-cultural literary comparison, the
multi-national nature of the tsarist and Soviet empires, Eurasian studies,
the role of ideology in the Russian experience, film and visual studies,
cultural theory, and the very idea of "Eastern Europe," NYU will foster a
flexible and expansive appreciation of Russian culture, as well as a wide
sense of geographic context and comparison.

 

In addition to a broad range of courses and the opportunity to work closely
with faculty, graduate students will benefit from a funded colloquium
bringing together Russia-focused scholars--faculty and PhD candidates from
all disciplines--from across the greater New York area. Students will also
have full access to courses offered through the Inter-University Doctoral
Consortium (Columbia University, CUNY, Princeton University, Rutgers
University, Stonybrook, Teachers' College - Columbia, Fordham University,
and The New School for Social Research).

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

 

Anne Lounsbery

anne.lounsbery at nyu.edu 

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Study

Department of Russian & Slavic Studies

New York University

13-19 University Place, 2nd floor

New York, NY 10003

 

(212) 998-8674

 

 


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