About Slavic Studies at Monash University
Slavic Studies is a research discipline represented by staff in European Studies and the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies as well as by Honorary Research Associates in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics.
The current research areas in Slavic Studies, which reflect postgraduate research as well as staff research, are the following:
- Poetics of the works of L N Tolstoy and F M Dostoevsky in the context of phenomenology of perception and modern subjectivity
- Russian and Slavic drama of Modernism and postmodernism
- Russian postmodern prose and the 'new Russian' ethics (Bakhtin, Mamardashvili)
- Russian avant-garde and post-avant-garde in film and text
- Russian and Slavic post-communist popular culture, including the Russian detektiv, Slovak TV soaps and rock bands
- Russian and Slavic linguistics
Journals
The Slavic Studies research discipline at Monash is supported by two refereed scholarly journals:
The
Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review
Australian Slavonic and East European Studies
Slavic research staff are active in the international and national editorial boards of both journals.
Postgraduate Research
Currently the Slavic Studies discipline has five active PhD candidates, three of which are holders of APA or MPS scholarships. The discipline also has two MA candidates who are close to submission.
Russian Language is not taught at undergraduate level. Students wishing to study Russian language are advised to seek information from the Russian Program at the University of Melbourne, or the Russian Program at Macquarie University (Sydney) which offers courses in external mode.
Undergraduate Sequence
Slavic Studies is also represented by an undergraduate sequence in Ukrainian Studies.