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

[Lilya Kaganovsky]

Dear colleagues,

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University  
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) invites applications to our  
graduate program from students interested in pursuing the study of  
Slavic literatures and cultures. We welcome students with interests in  
18th-21st century Russian literature and culture, Polish literature  
and culture, concentrations in more than one national literature, and  
in interdisciplinary approaches, including cinema and visual culture,  
comparative literature and studies in translation, critical theory,  
history, and the arts. 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 in a related fields) elsewhere.

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 the listing of our faculty, their  
research interests, and their recent publications at: 	

http://www.slavic.uiuc.edu/people/

Our current graduate students are working in areas such as: gender and  
women's studies, Ukrainian literature and culture, the society tale,  
late Soviet popular culture, contemporary Polish literature and film,  
and Jewish Studies.

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 & World Literature, the History Department, the  
Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory, the Program in Jewish  
Culture & Society, and the Department of Media & 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, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian/Montenegran,  
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, 2011.  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.

For questions about our graduate program, please contact:

Lilya Kaganovsky <lilya at illinois.edu>
Director of Graduate Studies

Michael Finke <mcfinke at illinois.edu>
Head, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

for questions about the application process, please contact:

Lynn Stanke <stanke at illinois.edu>
Graduate Student Services



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Lilya Kaganovsky, Associate Professor, DGS
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
217-333-6157

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