Members of the section conduct and supervise research in the following areas: t he 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 critical theory.
Members of the Slavic studies program participate in the supervision of
interdisciplinary research, especially in critical theory, comparative
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).
For up-to-date information about research areas, refer to the staff and
research interest sections on the Slavic studies website at
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/slavic/. For general information, visit
the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics website at
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/graduate_studies.
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