Doing a PhD in the Department
The Department is always happy to be contacted by prospective research students. Research interests in the department include the following:
- Current Russia-EU relations
- Curriculum development and design
- Eastern European history in the 20th century
- Literary culture of the Russian emigration
- Literary translation
- Methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language
- Russian 19th-century prose narrative
- Russian in the diaspora
- Russian lexicology
- Russian Modernism
- Social history of Soviet-type regimes
- Socio-economic and political trends in the Baltic States and their relations with Russia
- South Slavic linguistics
- Syllabus and Textbook Design
- Translation studies
- Twentieth-century Russian literature and culture