Postgraduate courses and subjects 2000

Slavic studies

Members of the department conduct and supervise research in two main areas:
(a) The literatures and cultures of Russia, Ukraine and Poland, as well as those of the nations of the former Yugoslavia. This work focuses on modern and contemporary phenomena, as well as canonical 19th and 20th-century writers and works.
(b) Slavic linguistics. This covers a wide spectrum of topics, both modern and historical, in Slavic and general linguistics with special emphasis on contrastive linguistics and the morphology of contemporary Slavic languages.
Members of the Slavic Studies department participate in the supervision of interdisciplinary research, especially in contemporary literature, cultural studies and European Studies.
Areas of research specialisation include modernism and postmodernism in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and other Slavic literatures, post-Soviet cultural transformations, 19th and 20th-century Slavic literatures, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Bakhtin, structuralism and post-structuralism, Slavic women's writing, literature and culture of the Slavic diasporas, theory of formal grammar, problems of Slavic inflectional morphology, especially Russian and Ukrainian, Slavic, especially Russian, accentology, verbal aspect in the Slavic languages, especially Russian, the Czech language, history of Slavic linguistics, the theory and practice of literary translation from the Slavic languages.