Columbia University in the City of New York

Department of Slavic Languages

"Graduate course on Academic Discourse - March, 2017"

Black Sea Networks

BLACK SEA MYTHS AND MODERN EUROPE - Friday, October 6, 2017 3:00pm Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center for the Humanities

Bobok, the Barnard-Columbia Slavic Department Band

Russian Language students at the Nicholas Roerich Museum, January 2018

Russian Language students at the Nicholas Roerich Museum, January 2018

Yuri Shevchuk speaks at the United Nations International Mother Language Day, on Feb 22, 2016

Valentina Izmirlieva delivers the inaugural memorial Shevelov Lecture in Ukrainian Studies (April 2018, Columbia University)

Welcome to the Slavic Department!

On our website, you can find out more about our faculty, our students, and our undergraduate and graduate offerings in Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian languages, literatures, and cultures. Choose a link in the menu to the left, click here for a list of Fall 2020 courses conducted in English with no prerequisites, or check us out on Facebook.

2020 - 2021 ACADEMIC YEAR - LINGUISTICS COURSES

SOPHIE PINKHAM - 2020 Kukula Award Finalist

The Washington Monthly magazine is pleased to announce the finalists for the inaugural Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing—the only journalism prize dedicated to highlighting and encouraging high-quality reviews of serious, public affairs–focused books. The award honors the memory of the late Kukula Kapoor Glastris, the magazine’s longtime and beloved books editor.

SLAVIC DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES WINNER OF 2020 PUSHKIN PRIZE

Stephen Andrew Bruce (Ph.D. candidate, Slavic) was named the 2020 winner of the Slavic Department's Pushkin Prize for his translation of a poem from Aleksandr Veltman's novel, The Wanderer. Jiashi Yang and Evan James Mortimer received Honorable Mention for their translation of poems by Anna Akhmatova and Aleksandr Blok. Mark Lipovetsky and Ronald Meyer served on the prize jury. You can read the winning translations here.

Stephen Bruce earned a BA in Humanities from Yale in 2009 and a MA in history from the University of Illinois in 2015. Before coming to Columbia, he worked as an English-language teacher in Moscow. His research deals with Russian literature and the cultural history of the Russian Empire. His article “The Pan-European Justification of a Multilingual Russian Society in the Late Eighteenth Century” was published as a chapter in French and Russian in Imperial Russia, edited by Derek Offord et al. (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). He plans to write his dissertation about fantastic travel stories in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, investigating how these stories reflect the developing notions of national identity in the expanding Russian Empire. He has also completed a translation of Alexander Veltman’s novel The Wanderer, and is currently preparing it for publication.

Evan Mortimer is an undergraduate studying Political Ccience at Columbia University. He hopes to continue learning more about Russian language and literature.

Jiashi Yang is a sophomore at Columbia College studying Russian Language and Culture as well as Sustainable Development. She has the same birthday as Akhmatova’s, but was born 111 years later.

“The Yogis of the Arbat”

Mie Mortensen who won the second prize in the NYU Jordan Center's first-ever Graduate Student Essay Competition for her essay “The Yogis of the Arbat”.

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2020 - 2021 ACADEMIC YEAR - LINGUISTICS COURSES