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Slavic studies

Members of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics who specialise in Slavic studies conduct and supervise research in the following areas: 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 critical theory.

Research degrees

Supervision of PhD and Master of Arts by research (100%) is available.

Members of the school specialising in Slavic studies 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, and 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 www.arts.monash.edu.au/slavic/. For general information, visit the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics website.

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