Department of Slavic Languages

Georgetown University’s Department of Slavic Languages is committed to fostering cross-cultural understanding in the global community by educating students who are linguistically and culturally competent users of Russian, Polish and Ukrainian. Focusing on the integration of language into the humanities and social sciences, the Department prepares students to meet the emerging challenges of an increasingly complex and interdependent world.

The Department of Slavic Languages provides content-based instruction in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish and a wide variety of courses in Russian literature, culture and linguistics, taught both in Russian and in English.
The Department offers an undergraduate major in Russian and two different minors, anchors the literature/culture culture for the M.A. degree in Russian Area Studies, and welcomes all other students interested in its academic programs.

OUR STUDENTS

The Department of Slavic Languages congratulates Laura Molloy and Eva Trust, who have been selected by the US Department of State to receive Critical Language Scholarships for study in Russia this summer as well as Jay Gonzalez, who has been awarded a Fulbright grant to work in Russia.

Congratulations to Laura Molloy for receiving for the second consecutive year an Honorable Mention in the National Post Secondary Russian Essay Contest organized by the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR).

OUR FACULTY

Prof. Marcia Morris
The following articles have been published:
“Canst Thou Draw Leviathan with a Hook? Akunin Collides and Colludes with Collins and Christie.” Clues: A Journal of Detection 28 (2010): 69-78.
“Boris Akunin’s Children’s Book: Russian Adventures in Anglo-American Intertextuality.” Journal of Children’s Literature Studies 6 (2009): 88-105. and the following papers delivered:  “Road Rage: Dead Souls and the Quest for Fixity” Formulations: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, A Conference in Honor of Robert L. Belknap 2/10 and “Tynianov and the Tragi-comic Life of Paul I” AAASS 11/09.

Prof. Marcia Morris's article “Boris Akunin’s /Children’s Book/: Russian Adventures in Anglo-American Intertextuality” appeared in the summer 2009 issue of the /Journal of Children’s Literature Studies/.

Prof. Olga Meerson
Prof. Olga Meerson co-translated, co-edited, and co-annotated The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov. The book was published in April, 2009.

Dr. Meerson's new book on Post-Bakhtinian Literary Theory, titled Personalism as Poetics: The Literary World Through the Eyes of Its Inhabitants, which she has written in Russian, was published at the Institute of World Literature, St. Petersburg (the so-called "Pushkin House"). (Summer, 2009)
 

Prof. David Andrews
Prof. David Andrews gave a presentation "Words: Prototypes and Semantic Primitives in Émigré-Russian Vocabulary" at the Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (May, 2009).

Prof. Marcia Morris
Published an article: "Falxe Heroes and Empty Thrones: Nikolai Stavrogin as Russian Pretender." in F.M. Dostoevsly in the Context of Cultural Dialogues. A Cllection of Aticles Bsed on the Papers Presented at the Thirteenth Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society. Ed. Katalin Kroo and Tunde Szabo, Budapest, 2009: 345-52.