Postgraduate taught courses in Russian and East European Studies
MA students in Russian and East European Studies can design their own tailor-made programme within our new research-route MA in Languages and Cultures. Students may specialise in any of the research specialisms offered by staff in Russian and East European Studies, covering a wide range of topics in Russian and East European cultures, cultural politics and the intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They include: all aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature nationalism and national identity in Russia and Eastern Europe; Soviet and post-Soviet film and media; Russian women's studies; Cultural aspects of the post-communist transition; Polish cultural studies; Russian and East European intellectual history; Literature and culture of the Balkans; Medieval Slavic culture.
Our new research-route MA in Languages Cultures replaces the subject-specific and thematic MA pathways which were previously available on the MA in European Languages and Cultures. For full details of the programme, see MA in Languages and Cultures.
For a full listing of staff research interests in Russian and East European Studies, see our research pages.
Alternatively, students with an interest in language, linguistics, or translation and interpreting, or with an interest in more professionally oriented MA programmes, may pursue Russian and East European topics within the following taught MA programmes:
MA Intercultural Communication
MA Translation and Interpreting Studies
Further Information
For information on how to apply, fees and funding, and postgraduate study in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, please visit the: