Postgraduate research programmes in Russian and East European Studies
Russian and East European Studies has been officially assessed in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise as the best in the nation for research in its field. 35% of its research was deemed to be 'world-leading' and a total of 70% was rated as 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent'.
Staff in Russian and East European Studies conduct research of an interdisciplinary nature across a broad range of subjects, including medieval Slavic cultures; all aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature and intellectual history; Soviet and post-Soviet cinema and the media; Russian and Soviet popular culture; gender studies; nationalism and ethnic politics in Russia and Eastern Europe; post-communist transition in East Central Europe; and Balkan Studies.
Currently, the discipline has thirteen PhD students researching a wide range of topics from multiculturalism in 20th-century Polish poetry to issues of identity in post-communist Russia. The overall excellence of our PhD students is reflected in the awards, bursaries and studentships they have received for their studies. These include two AHRC and one ESRC studentships, one President’s Research Scholar award, a stipend from the Austrian Ministry of Education, as well as several School studentships and Graduate Teaching Fellowships (two of which are co-funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Education).
The discipline constitutes a core group of the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, which facilitates collaboration in research and postgraduate teaching and supervision among relevant members of staff across the Faculty of Humanities.
Recent Thesis Titles in Russian and East European Studies
- 'Dissidence and the Body in East European 'New Wave' Cinema'
- 'An Inter-Textual Study of the Petersburg Theme in the Poetry of Joseph Brodsky and the Other Poets of His Generation'
- 'Re-imagining the Kuban' Cossack: Politics of Identity in Post-Communist Russia'
- 'News as Narrative: Reporting and Translating the 2004 Beslan Hostage Disaster'
- 'The Role of Translation and the Politics of Culture in the Soviet Union in the 1930s'
- 'Buddhist and Hindu-inspired movements in Post-Communist Russia'
- 'The Representation of the Russian Idea and its Others in Aleksei Balabanov's Film'
Programmes
- Polish Studies MPhil
- Polish Studies PhD
- Russian Studies MPhil
- Russian Studies PhD
- Translation and Intercultural Studies PhD
- Translation and Intercultural Studies MPhil
Further Information
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