Duke University MA Programs in Russian Literature and Culture and Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Beth Holmgren beth.holmgren at DUKE.EDU
Tue Oct 16 07:19:46 UTC 2012 

Dear Colleagues,

We invite your students to apply to Duke's  thriving interdisciplinary
M.A. programs housed in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian
Studies..  We welcome their specific inquiries about our courses of
study, faculty expertise and mentoring, and graduate life at Duke.
They make check out many of the particulars on our website:
http://slaviceurasian.duke.edu/graduate

DUKE UNIVERSITY M.A. IN SLAVIC AND EURASIAN STUDIES
Duke University’s Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies invites
applications for its Fall 2013 Master of Arts program.  This two-year
graduate program is tailor-made to develop students’ intellectual
interests and train them for their chosen careers.  Working out
individual plans of study with the Director of Graduate Studies, our
M.A. students may prepare for further graduate work in a regionally
related discipline or careers in business, government, journalism,
nonprofit work, and public policy.

PROGRAMS AND CURRICULUM:

Master's students at Duke may elect to concentrate in

1) Russian literature and culture

2) Slavic and Eurasian studies

These tracks enable students to develop proficiency in a variety of
Eurasian languages (Russian, Polish, Turkish, Romanian, and Uzbek).
Our diverse faculty teach a wide array of specializations.  These
include:

  *   Art History
  *   Cultural Anthropology
  *   Cultural Studies
  *   Film
  *   Gender Studies
  *   History
  *   Information Literacy
  *   Islamic Cultures
  *   Legal Studies
  *   Linguistics
  *   Literary Studies
  *   Markets and Management
  *   Public Policy
  *   Religion
  *   Semiotics
  *   Social Work
  *   Theater Studies
  *   Translation
  *   Visual Culture

In addition, our master's students are qualified to take introductory
and specialized courses in Duke's distinctive CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY
STUDIES and THE PROGRAM IN GLOBAL HEALTH.


DEPARTMENT FACULTY:

Primary Faculty

Edna Andrews.  Ph.D. Indiana University.  Cognitive and
neurolinguistics; Slavic and general linguistics; semiotics of
culture; poetics; Bulgakov; Zamiatin.

Carol Apollonio.  Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill.  Russian literature;
translation; theory of  translation.

Jehanne Gheith.  Ph.D. Stanford University. Russian literature and
culture; gender studies; Gulag history; memory and trauma studies;
end-of-life studies.

Erdag Göknar. Ph.D. University of Washington. Turkish literature and
cultural studies; comparative research in Middle Eastern and Eurasian
studies.

Beth Holmgren.  Ph.D. Harvard University. Russian literature and
culture; Polish literature and culture; theater and performing arts
studies; East European film; gender studies.

Elena Maksimova. M.A. Leningrad State University.  Bunin; Russian
stylistics; Russian film; scientific, scholarly, and legal Russian;
certified proficiency tester.

Denis Mickiewicz.  Ph.D. Yale University.  Russian poetry; modernism;
comparative poetics; music.

Mustafa Tuna.  Ph.D. Princeton University.  Russian and Central
Eurasian history and culture; Islam in Turkey and Central Eurasia.

JoAnne Van Tuyl. Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill.  Russian language; Russian
literature; Russian and African American comparative studies;
instructional technology for Russian as a foreign language.

Joint Faculty

Johanna McAuliffe.  M.F.A. Yale University.  Literary and  cultural
criticism;  directing;  Russian drama.

Secondary Faculty

Martin Miller. Ph.D. University of Chicago.  Russian history; history
of psychoanalysis in Russia; comparative terrorist movements.

Julie Tetel. Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill. Linguistic historiography,
focusing on French, German,  and American theories of language from
the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Adjunct and Visiting Faculty

Michael Newcity.  M.A., J.D. The George Washington University. Russian
legal studies; markets and management.

Pamela Kachurin.  Ph.D. Indiana University.  Russian visual culture;
contemporary Russian art;  art and politics; Soviet artists.

Ernest Zitser.  Ph.D. Columbia University. Librarian, Slavic and East
European Collection. Early modern Russian history; autobiography;
Russian visual culture; Slavic information literacy.

St. Petersburg University Faculty and Slavic and Eurasian
Studies-related Faculty

The Duke Slavic Department has an ongoing faculty exchange with St.
Petersburg State University. Since 1988, one professor from Russia has
come to teach at Duke each semester. M.A. students are also encouraged
to sample courses taught by the many other Slavic and Eurasian
Studies-related faculty at Duke, listed at
http://www.duke.edu/web/CSEEES/duke_faculty.html

STUDY ABROAD

MA students at Duke are eligible to participate in the Duke in Russia
summer program
http://studyabroad.duke.edu/home/Programs/Summer/Duke_in_Russia

FINANCIAL SUPPORT:

Financial support for full-time M.A. students is available from the
Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies. We aim to
support 2-3 qualified candidates with FLAS Fellowships, which require
that the applicant be a U.S. citizen and be enrolled in foreign
language courses for the term of the fellowship.  Academic year FLAS
Fellowships provide recipients with funding to cover their entire
tuition and required fees for the fellowship period, as well as a
monthly stipend.  M.A. students are also encouraged to apply for
positions as graders and to undertake teaching apprenticeships.

GRADUATE STUDENT AFFAIRS

For more information, please go to
http://gradschool.duke.edu/gsa/programs/index.php


APPLICATION INFORMATION AND DEADLINES FOR FALL 2013:

JANUARY 31, 2013 - Priority deadline for submission of Master's
applications for admission and award for the fall semester.  For more
information about our programs, admissions and application
requirements, and graduate student life at Duke, please go to
http://gradschool.duke.edu/admissions/deadlines/index.php
or contact:

Professor Beth Holmgren, Chair
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
316 Languages Building, Box 90259
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0259
Tel: (919) 660-3140; Fax: (919) 660-3141
beth.holmgren at duke.edu

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