graduate study UIUC

[mcfinke]

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University  
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, invites prospective graduate students  
to apply to our program.   Today (January 9) is the posted deadline  
for applications; however, we will continue to entertain applications  
and admit new students on a rolling basis.  Although late applicants  
will not be eligible for certain University fellowships, we do expect  
to be able to support more students than those who are likely to be  
admitted and enroll from the current applicant pool.

Qualified students will be guaranteed five years of financial support  
(including fellowships, teaching assistantships, summer support,  
research assistantships).

Please note that we particularly welcome applications from students  
who have already earned the M.A. in Russian Literature, Slavic  
Studies, or Comparative Literature.



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Below is a restatement of information on our program that was first  
posted some months ago:



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 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,  
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:



Harriet Murav <hlmurav at uiuc.edu>

Head, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures



Michael Finke <mcfinke at uiuc.edu>

Director of Graduate Studies






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

mcfinke at uiuc.edu
(217) 244-3068





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