Research topics

We welcome research proposals related to all areas in which our staff have expertise. The department has two research 'clusters':

Russian Literary and Cultural Studies

Slavonic Languages and Linguistics

Recent and current projects

Recent and current projects include:

• Russian philosophy of culture and language in the 1920s: Institutional and theoretical dynamics.
• Soviet artist Aleksandr Laktionov and popular taste.
• Aleksandr Blok's lyric trilogy.
• The Bakhtin Circle and Soviet psychological thought.
• Accommodation and dialect maintenance in the speech of Moravian students living in Prague.
• Changes in Czech vocabulary against the background of socio-political changes from the 1980s to the present.
• Reception of Russian dissident and emigré literature in Polish underground publishing 1976-1989.
• Representations of masculinity in postwar Soviet art.

If it is not immediately clear to you whether your proposed research topic could be supervised in the Department, please contact the Graduate Selector, who will be happy to offer guidance.

email : somlal-enquiries@sheffield.ac.uk