Members of the department conduct and supervise research in two main
areas:
(a) The literatures and cultures of Russia, Ukraine and Poland and the
nations of the former Yugoslavia. The focus in the above is on the study of
modernism and postmodernism as well as on the 19th-century literary
canons, examined through poststructural theory.
(b) Slavic linguistics. This covers a wide spectrum of topics, both modern
and historical, in Slavic and general linguistics and the morphology of
contemporary Slavic languages.
Members of the Department of Slavic Studies participate in the supervision of
interdisciplinary research, especially in contemporary literature, cultural
studies and European studies.
Areas of research specialisation include: the Russian post-avant garde
(Sorokin, Tolstaya, Petrushevskaya and others), contemporary Ukrainian
literature and culture and the culture of the Ukrainian diaspora, Polish film
and theatre, post-Yugoslav film and fiction, the novels of Dostoevsky and
Tolstoy in the context of phenomenology, Bakhtin's theory of genres, discourse
and the act, Florensky's philosophy and Russian modernism, Gogol and minor
literature.
The Slavic language staff specialise in the theory of formal grammar (Russian,
Ukrainian), inflectional morphology (Russian and Ukrainian), and the history of
Russian linguistics.
For up-to-date information about research areas, please refer to the staff and
research interest sections at the Slavic website at
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ gsandss/slavic/
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