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 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 program participate in the supervision of
interdisciplinary research, especially in contemporary literature, cultural
studies, drama 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, new
Russian popular culture (detective fiction).
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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