Graduate Study at The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington

[Jose Alaniz]

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington invites applications to its M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Literature and Slavic Linguistics starting in Fall, 2013. We seek students who have had at least three years of Russian language training and other related coursework (although those with less will still be considered). We also welcome applicants who have completed an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures (or in related fields). We now offer our top applicant a three-year initial funding package (1 year of tuition/fee waiver and a generous stipend, plus two years of TAships/RAships). 

We offer a rich variety of Slavic languages, including Russian, Polish, Czech, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Slovenian, and occasionally Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and Rumanian. A selective list of our faculty’s concentrations includes Russian, Czech and former Yugoslav Literature and Film; Post-Soviet, Russian-Jewish, and General Cultural Studies (including Visual Arts, Gender, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Philosophy, Disability, Death & Dying, and Religion); Diachronic and Synchronic Linguistics (including syntax, semantics and pragmatics in a cross-cultural perspective). We invite you to consult http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/ for the list of our faculty and their research interests. 

The UW Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures prides itself on close ties with the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies and other departments and programs (History, Political Science, Jewish Studies, Film Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Linguistics, Near Eastern Literatures and Cultures, Scandinavian Studies, Comparative History of Ideas, The Simpson Center for the Humanities), which enhance our ability to carry out research and teaching missions in the broad area of Slavic, Eurasian, and post-Soviet Studies. Students may also earn a number of graduate certificates, in fields such as Second and Foreign Language Teaching, Public Scholarship, etc.

The UW Libraries is home to one of the nation’s outstanding Slavic studies research collections, which numbers over a half million items and supports advanced work in Russian, Czech, Polish, BCS, Slovenian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian languages, literatures and cultures. Each year we acquire over 6,000 newly published books, media materials, and other items from and about the Slavic and East European world. Items from our collection of more than 1,600 Slavic and East European feature films are available to students on one-week loan. Libraries staff work closely with both faculty and graduate students in the Slavic Department to ensure that UW is acquiring material that supports their research and teaching.  

The UW Slavic Department offers a warm and collegial setting for graduate students to grow and develop their skills. Students have a chance to share their research and practice conference talks at our monthly Graduate Student Colloquia and present their work at our annual Slavic Symposia and REECAS Northwest Conferences. We work hard, through mentorship, opportunities for professional development, as well as coursework, to equip our graduate students with the skills and training they will need to excel in their chosen field. To learn more about the opportunities and resources at the University of Washington, please visit http://www.grad.washington.edu/. 

Please consult the fact sheet on  our website http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/ for more details and contact Prof. José Alaniz, Graduate Advisor, at jos23 at u.washington.edu with inquiries.

To apply, visit http://www.grad.washington.edu/admissions/index.shtml. This year’s application deadline is January 15, 2013.

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