Welcome to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Welcome to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
News and Announcements
Upcoming talk: From the Sewers to the Stars: Non-Narrative Constructions of Temporality in Jách ym Topol’s Sestra and Olga Tokarczuk’s Constellation Novels
by
David W. Pratt McGill University
Monday, January 27 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Alumni Hall Room 404 121. St. Joseph Street
A collection of poems by our graduate student, Alex Averbuch, from his recent book "The testimony of the fourth person" was published in French translation in the Swiss literary journal "La Revue de Belles-Lettres."
Upcoming Event
A Special 5-Part Lecture Series
Making and Remaking Central Europe: The Czech and Slovak Contribution?
Political Correctness and Language of the Media - Before 1989 and Nowadays
by
Elena Krejčová Masaryk University
Wednesday, February 12
6:00-8:00 PM
Alumni Hall Room 404
121 St. Joseph Street
The Finnish National Agency for Education (EDUFI) has awarded our Finnish program a generous grant for the next two years. This is a sign of the respect the Finnish government has for the work Prof. Anu Muhonen is doing here at Toronto, and we congratulate her on winning this grant.
A new book by Prof. Leonid Livak, on the life and work of a Russian-French translator and poet Ludmila Savitzky, has been published in Moscow. For more details click here.
Students in Elementary Ukrainian and Prof. Mariana Burak have produced a new video.
Prof. Leonid Livak has won this year’s prestigious Modern Language Association (MLA)’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, awarded biennially, for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Studying 'Ukrainian language and literature enriched my life': A&S alumnus Mark Strychar-Bodnar
Click here to read the article about an alumnus of the Slavic Department and how his Ukrainian studies enriched his life.
Czech and Slovak Culture Event and Czech Award Ceremony
On November 27th, our Department hosted the event in which students from Czech Language Course and Czech and Slovak Culture Course were presenting to our guests from Czech Community their class projects which included the interviews with some of the Czech community members. The Award Ceremony was a part of it - Nicolle Mitacek got the Ernest Tauber Award and Alex Bercik got the Tibor P. Gregor and Arthur J. Langley Sr. Award.
Click the image below to see more photos!
Polish Program Events: Fall 2019
Click the image below to view a full PDF of the Polish program's Fall 2019 events.
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, postponed from last year, has been awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, while the 2019 award was given to Austrian author Peter Handke.
Tokarczuk won “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." The Judges’ statement also reads that Tokarczuk is “a writer preoccupied with local life but at the same time inspired by maps and speculative thought, looking at life on Earth from above. Her work is full of wit and cunning.” The committee also singled out for special commendation Tokarczuk’s 1,000-page historical novel, The Books of Jacob, about the 18th-century Jewish sectarian leader, Jacob Frank (Riverhead Books plans to publish the novel in English in 2021). Tokarczuk’s novel “Flights” (translated by Jennifer Croft) won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for translated fiction.
We hosted Olga Tokarczuk in the department on November 23, 2010. To read more about her, click here, or read a chapter on her writing in the recently published Being Poland. A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 (UofT Press, 2018).
Alex Averbuch's new article "The Theurgy of Impurity: Fin-de-Race and Feminine Sin in Russian and Ukrainian Modernisms" has just been published in the latest issue of the Russian Review.
Prof. Holland's project, "Digital Dostoevsky," which will create an open-access database of Dostoevsky’s works and then use methods of digital text analysis and mapping on those works. The project also includes a book co-authored by Prof. Holland and her co-applicant, Prof. Katherine Bowers (UBC) that shows how different techniques of digital reading can open up old questions about Dostoevsky’s novels in new ways. The grant runs from 2019-2025. Slavic Librarian Ksenya Kiebuzinski is a collaborator on the project.
In his project, "The Final Chapter of Russia Abroad," Prof. Livak, in collaboration with Prof. Siggy Frank of the University of Nottingham (UK), will research and write the cultural history of the disintegration of the anti-Soviet Russian emigre community in France during and after the Second World War.
