Russian and Slavonic Studies

All members of Russian and Slavonic Studies are active in a wide range of research fields covering the language, literature, culture and society of Russia and other Slavonic countries.

Particular areas of interest include:

• Russian and Slavonic literature of the 19th to 21st centuries
• comparative literature, decolonisation and globalisation
• cultural and national identity, cultural memory in contemporary Russia
• language variation in Czech
• variationist sociolinguistics
• language and translation pedagogy
• corpus-based language learning & teaching and learner corpora
• classification of translation and learner errors
• register and semantic analysis.

We have a vibrant and expanding postgraduate community and have been particularly successful in recent years in securing externally funded postgraduate scholarships.