Russian
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures teaches five levels of Russian. The department offers an undergraduate major in Russian Language, Literature and Culture, and a minor in Russian Language, as well as a minor in Russian and Slavic Literatures. The department offers a wide variety of courses in Russian literature, culture, and film, including courses that fulfill the M.A. and the Ph.D. requirements of the department.
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Program Overview
Degree availability: Minor, B.A, M.A, Ph.D
Years offered: 5 years
Course Information
Course Catalog
Language Courses
- RUSS 101/102/103 First Year Russian
- RUSS 201/202/303 Second-Year Russian
- RUSS 301/302/303 Third-Year Russian
- RUSS 304 Reading and Translation
- RUSS 401/402/403 Fourth-Year Russian
Culture Courses:
- RUSS 110 Introduction to Russian Culture and Civilization (5) A&H/SSc
- RUSS 210 From Paganism to Christianity: Medieval Russian Mythology, Literature, and Culture (5) A&H/SSc
- RUSS 321 Eighteenth Century Russian Literature and Culture (5) A&H
- RUSS 322 The Golden Age: Nineteenth Century Russian Literature and Culture (5) SSc/A&H
- RUSS 323 Revolution: Twentieth Century Russian Literature and Culture (5) A&H/SSc
- RUSS 486 Culture in Russia (3, max. 15) A&H/SSc
- RUSS 520 Topics in Russian Literature and Culture (5, max. 20)
Special Topics
- RUSS 420 Topics in Russian Literary and Cultural History (5, max. 20) A&H
- RUSS 424 Topics in Ethnicity and Cultural Identity (5, max. 15) A&H/SSc
- RUSS 483 Russian Literature in Russia (3, max. 15) A&H
- RUSS 554 History of the Russian Literary Language (5)
"Yeah, I just, I got really into I thought Russian culture was very interesting. I loved Russian literature and music, and so I was like, I gotta learn the language."
Faculty's Recent Research Highlights
Publications
- Galya Diment, ed. H.G. Wells and All Things Russian. London: Anthem Press, 2019.
- Galya Diment. A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011, 2013. 438pp.
- José Alaniz. “Crowd Control: Anxiety of Effluence in Sokurov’s ‘Russian Ark.'” in Sokurov anthology, ed. Birgit Beumers and Nancy Condee.
- Valentina Zaitseva. “Gender and National Identity through Russian Language.” Chapter 1 in Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux, eds. Engendering the Nation: A Cross-Disciplinary Examination of Gender and National Identity in Russian Culture. Indian UP, 2006.
- Valentina Zaitseva. “Quoting Russian Poetry.” Chapter 2 in Eloise M. Boyle and Genevra Gerhart, eds. The Russian Context: The Culture behind the Language. Slavica: Bloomington, Indiana, 2002. 85-202.
- Valentina Zaitseva. “Quoting Russian Prose.” Chapter 3 in Eloise M. Boyle and Genevra Gerhart, eds. The Russian Context: The Culture behind the Language. Slavica: Bloomington, Indiana, 2002. 203-264.
- “Art and the Language of Russian Culture,” in The Russian Context, ed. Genevra Gerhart and Eloise Boyle. Bloomington: Slavica Press, 2001
- Biographical article on Zhukovskii (15,000 words) for the Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Christine Rydel. (1998).
- “Knowledge, Belief and Art in Russian Neo-Kantianism,” in Studies in East European Thought, 47 (3-4), Dec. 1995 (special issue on Russian Neokantianism, ed. Bernice Rosenthal).
- “Kant, Kant, Kant: the Neo-Kantian Creative Consciousness in Andrei Bely’s Peterburg,” in: The European Foundations of Russian Modernism. Ed. Peter I. Barta. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.
- Russian Symbolism. London: Methuen, 1970.
- Narezhny, Vasily Trofimovich and LeBlanc, Ronald D., “A Russian Gil Blas, or The Adventures of Prince Gavrila Simonovich Chistyakov.” Faculty Publications. 1595. https://scholars.unh.edu/faculty_pubs/1595/
- Alaniz, José. Comics and History in the Czech Lands.
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