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Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Recent News
New Slavic Project Spotlight:
“Mapping Culture under Occupation: Building a Digital Research Corpus of Russian-Occupied Ukraine”
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Alex Averbuch in the New York Times
Alex Averbuch, assistant professor in SLL, published a New York Times opinion essay on L.G.B.T.Q. rights in wartime Ukraine, arguing that legal recognition for same-sex partners is essential to the freedom and dignity Ukraine is fighting to defend.
Welcome to Slavic Languages and Literatures
Welcome to Slavic Languages and Literatures. Our faculty specialize in Eastern European Literatures and Cultures, including focus on cinema, architecture, and the visual arts. The cultures we cover include Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian; we also have strong interest in Judaic, Central Asian, Baltic, and Balkan cultures (including Greek and Albanian).
Academic Programs and Services
Benjamin Paloff discusses three plays by Aleksander Fredro, Stanisław Wyspiański, and Stanisław Przybyszewski in the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature.” Professor Paloff is thinking in his current research about the marriage plot and the work it does to sort through cultural and class divisions in Poland among peasants, urban intellectuals, and the gentry.
Events
Featured
Sep
30
Foundations: Cossacks, Modernity and the Age of Empire
Andriy Zayarnyuk (University of Winnipeg)
5:00 PM
Michigan Room
Michigan League
Upcoming
Oct
06
CCPS/Slavic Event. Student Symposium – Experiences in Poland
6:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
21
Ukraine: Revolution, Resistance, Democracy
Sophia Wilson (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
5:00 PM
Assembly Hall
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Nov
18
The 1932–33 Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine and Its Afterlife
John Vsetecka (Nova Southeastern University)
5:00 PM
Hussey Room
Michigan League
