Doctor of Philosophy in Slavic Languages and Literatures

The department supports doctoral study in the literatures and cultures of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian worlds, with primary strength in Russian and faculty expertise in Ukrainian, Polish, and Yiddish literatures. Core faculty in Slavic offer a broad geographic, linguistic and intellectual range of approaches to culture, including formal, historical, and philosophical approaches in literature, history and memory studies, digital techniques, and linguistic anthropology. Our students gain a broad expertise in the Russian canon even as they are required to take at least three courses in another field or discipline, some choose to complete a Ph.D. minor in at least another department or program. The department is part of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and our students may undertake cross-disciplinary work within the division through team-taught seminars, focal groups, research groups, lecture series, graduate conferences, and other opportunities for intellectual exchange with peers in cognate departments. In addition to Russian and one quarter of Old Church Slavonic, Ph.D. students in Slavic are required to learn to read at least two other languages: while they often choose french, German, or another Slavic language, they can make other choices depending on their research interests.

Electronically submitted application and statement of purpose.
Electronically submitted unofficial transcripts from every post-secondary institute attended. Please do not send transcripts to the department, we will request official transcripts only from those students who receive an offer of admissions.
Three letters of recommendation

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