Monash University: University Handbooks: Postgraduate Handbook 2002: Units indexed by faculty
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Slavic studies

Members of the section 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 Slavic Studies section 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, refer to the staff and research interest sections at the Slavic website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au /slavic/

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