About Slavic Studies at Monash University
Slavic Studies is a research discipline represented by staff in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, European 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:
- Phenomenology and the poetics of Realism: L N Tolstoy and F M Dostoevsky
- Non-Tragic Drama (A Chekhov, L Petrushevskaia, M Bojić, L Ukrainka)
- Dialogicity of discourse and Postmodern Ethics (M Bakhtin, M Mamardashvili)
- Avant-garde, post-avant-garde and post-perestroika cinema
- Post-communist popular culture (the Russian detektiv novel, Slovak TV soaps and rock bands)
- Russian and Slavic linguistics
Postgraduate Research
Current and recently completed theses in Slavic topics
- Little, great and not-so-great Russian: the minor literature of Nikolai Gogol (PhD)
- The writer's life under Stalinism: Yury Dombrovsky (PhD current)
- Representation of Stalinist themes and the recovery of cultural memory in the 'novels of death': The Keeper of Antiquities and The Faculty of Useless Knowledge by Yury Dombrovsky (MA)
- From mass-media to the mafia: a history of the Russian detective novel(PhD)
- The Relationship of Literariness to Utopia in the Russian Literary Canon and Avant-Garde Cinema (PhD current CCLCS/Slavic)
- “Polish avant-garde art and the art market in Poland in the Post-Communist Transition.” (PhD)
- Puer Senex as Narrative Topos in Andrei Belyi’s Kotik Letaev. (MA)
- Bridging The Gap: Examining the response of the international community to complex emergencies: The Experience of Central Bosnia 1992-2001 (MA)
- Reimagining Slovak national identity: media-based popular cultures 1993-2005 (PhD)
- The influence of Futurism on Postmodernism: Sorokin and Lucarelli (PhD current)
- Lyudmila Ulitskaya's short prose: A Structural Analysis (MA current)
- War metaphors in contemporary novels (Slavic/Linguistics current PhD)
Undergraduate Sequence
Slavic Studies is represented at undergraduate level by a sequence in Ukrainian Studies.
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.