The Department offers a wide range of graduate seminars; our offerings change from year to year, but recent courses have included the following:

Canonical Authors
Pushkin
Gogol
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Chekhov
Nabokov

Thematic and Theoretical

Theory of Narrative
Russian Intellectual History

Russia and Race
Poetic Self-Creation in 20th-Century Russia
Sex and Self in Russian Poetry
The Power of the Powerless: Dissidents from Socrates to Václav Havel

Periods and Genres -- Russian Literature

The Culture of Medieval Rus’: Art, Architecture, Ritual, Literature

18th-Century Russian Literature

The Future of Nineteenth-Century Russian Studies

Russian Futurism and Formalism

Russian and Soviet Film

Poetry after Brodsky: How Russian is it?

Elegy: The Art of Losing

Ukrainian, Czech, and Polish
East Central European Novel after World War II

Communism and the Politics of Culture: Czechoslovak Literary Culture after World War II
Polish Postwar Poetry
Milosz and America
War and Literature: Responses to World War II in Polish Culture

Understanding Ukraine: Personal Voices and Collective Imagination

Modern Ukrainian Literature: Canon, Community, and Cultural Experience
Revolutionary Ukraine: Between Russian Revolution and Euromaidan of 2014
Russian-Ukrainian Literary Relations
Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Poetry

Linguistics
Comparative Slavic Linguistics
Introduction to East Slavic Languages