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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures provides our Comparative Literary Studies students with an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Russian language and literature encompassing a range of other courses on the languages, culture, film, poetry, drama, and history of Eastern Europe. The department is comprised of a lively group of multidisciplinary scholars with broad interests who engage in a variety of research and teaching projects on many areas of Central and Eastern Europe. They successfully provide a strong, cutting-edge curriculum from a traditional focus on Russian literature and culture, with special strengths in literature, poetry, art, philosophy, the novel, intellectual history, translation, film, and language and linguistics.

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