Andrzej Brylak, a PhD candidate in the Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies, has just been offered the first post-doc position in Polish Studies ever established in the U.S, recently created at…
Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918. Edited by Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska, and Przemysław Czapliński, with the assistance of Agnieszka Polakowska (University of Toronto Press, 2018), was recognized by The…
Applications for admission for Fall 2020 are now being accepted for our graduate programs (MA and PhD) in Polish, Russian, and Central and Eastern European Studies.
Prof. Giedrius Subačius, Endowed Chair of Lithuanian Studies, will receive an award from the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports of the Republic of Lithuania for his scholarly achievements for the last ten years…
All three PhD candidates in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures who went on the job market this year have successfully landed job offers! Agnieszka Jezyk, who recently defended her…
Growing up in Mount Airy, Maryland, Frankee Lyons believed her ancestors came from Ireland and England. In high school and college, Eastern Europe, Jewish history and the Holocaust became areas of intellectual interest…
The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia edited by Colleen McQuillen and Julia Vaingurt (Academic Studies Press, 2018) was positively reviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books this week. The reviewer called it an “essential volume”…
Prof. Giedrius Subačius from the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures published new monograph “Simonas Daukantas’s Rīga Orthography (1827–1834)” (in Lithuanian; Vilnius: Institute of Lithuanian History, 472 pp.) It deals with the…
The journal of Lithuanian historical linguistics, Archivum Lithuanicum, edited by Giedrius Subačius has received a grant of nearly €50,000 from the Research Council of Lithuania. The grant is intended to cover the journal’s expenses…
