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Last weekend, the Slavic Department and our friends at the Slavic Center joined over 700 other runners and walkers at the Love of Languages 5k Run/Walk! Such events give us a chance to celebrate our…

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Are you interested in storytelling, filmmaking, language learning, or creative collaboration? Consider participating in the World Language Filmathon! The World Language Filmathon is a collaborative,…

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Join Slavic Languages & Literatures staff and students this Wednesday 9/16 at 4:30 to learn about resources, meet peers, and enjoy some Slavic foods!

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My summer began with reworking RUS2850 - Other Russias into an 8-week online course. With Dr. Jenny Suchland's blessing, I had the creative freedom to equip students with theories (Foucault was the…

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Back to Campus Autumn 2026 with the SEELC!

Welcome back to campus! We hope you will join us for a fantastic year of study by enrolling in one of our many courses below.

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It’s been a summer of languages! Siobhán spent the first 8 weeks of the summer taking ASL 1101 (which she found fabulous) before immediately leaving on the last day of the summer semester for…

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In May and June Angela Brintlinger was able to spend five weeks in Timișoara, Romania as a guest of West University ( Romanian: Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara; abbreviated UVT). This was her…

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The U.S. Russia Foundation (USRF) has awarded a second round of funding for the REEES Think Tank program: “Future- and Career-Readiness in Russian Area Studies”

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Congratulations to Dr. Helen Myers on her promotion to Associate Teaching Professor!


Dr. Myers always creates an excellent learning environment for our students and is a steadfast…

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Angela Brintlinger, Andrei Cretu, Helen Myers, Emma Pratt, and Larysa Stepanova, whose article “Russian for the Professions: Creating an M.A. Program in the Context of Holistic Foreign Language…

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Congratulations to Siobhań for her piece, "The Last Cohort of Russian ETAs," which has been accepted for publication in The Life and Death of Cold War Funding special issue of The Russian…

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The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures is pleased to announce that Sunnie has received $15,000 in Departmental Research Grant funding…

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Join us in giving a hearty congratulations to our Viktoriia Kim and Kelly Gallagher on their wonderful accomplishment in passing their Candidacy Exams!

As a Lecturer in the Department,…

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The Global Arts + Humanities has announced the 2026-27 Society of Fellows. Dr. Yana Hashamova, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at our Department, has been named Leadership Faculty Fellow…

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Congratulations Dr. Angela Brintlinger on this astounding achievement! Thank you for your years of service and your continued dedication to the students, faculty, and all friends and colleagues of…

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Congratulations to Dr. Yana Hashamova, who has been named Leadership Faculty Fellow and Mentor of the six Graduate Team Fellows as part of the Global Arts and Humanities Society of Fellows program…

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Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Collins, who has been given the inaugural “ASC Student Wellbeing Advocate” by the ASC Committee on Student Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Prof. Christa Teston,…

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Well done, Andrey!

Wish you continued success and hope you will continue to be a key part of our graduate student community. Keep up the good work!

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Congratulations to Alex Burry, who has been granted the prestigious Award for Distinguished Service by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.…

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We hope you will join us in congratulating two of our graduate students, Marge Stafford and Lejla Veskovic, and one undergraduate Russian Major, Tobey Rubin, on their recent achievements!

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The SEELC would like to acknowledge and congratulate our very own Russian Major, Tobey Rubin, on becoming a Civil Disourse Fellow for the upcoming Spring 2026 Civil Discourse for Citizenship…

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This award is “Ohio State’s highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate students serving as Graduate Teaching Associates.” Mykyta will receive a $2000 award and be honored at…

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The Department of Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Cultures is excited to welcome a new incoming faculty, Dr. Ana Cohle, who will be joining us in August 2026 as a Visiting Assistant…

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Congratulations to Dr. Jenny Suchland, who has been selected for the National Humanities Select Summer Residency program! This is a wonderful honor and opportunity for Dr. Suchland, who will be able…

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Congratulations to Alex Burry, who has been granted the prestigious Award for Distinguished Service by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.…

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Plan Ahead for 2026!

Build your Summer and Fall schedules by checking out the Slavic Department's course offerings for Summer and Autumn.

Whether you want to study Russian or Polish, or…

Heartiest congratulations to our very own Graduate Students, Michelle Verbitskaya and Mykyta Tyshchenko, whose Ukrainian textbook proposal has passed stage 1 in the reviewing process for the Language…

Check out the Scholarship and Grant Opportunities available through the CLLC for Graduate and Undergraduate students

🌍CLLC Undergraduate Study Abroad Grants
🌎ALI Study Abroad and…

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Want a leg up in your studies? Get your GE credits or study that one course you haven't been able to fit in your schedule.

Join the SEELC this Summer in one of our online courses! Maybe you…

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Congratulations to Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang on her new co-edited special issue of The Slavic Review On Black Life and Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies AND her…

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Happy New Year from the SEELC! As the new semester nears, we hope you share our excitement in preparing for another year of shared learning experiences.

As part of the new semester, we…

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This was a semester to celebrate the brilliance of our graduate students at the SEELC!

Congratulations to all our newly-minted ABDs: Enes Tastan, Michelle Verbitskaya, Siobhán Seigne, and…

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We at the SEELC believe we have the best students at The Ohio State University! Most students in our Russian Language Majors have a second major, or add minors in a wide range of fields. Their…

Join us in congratulation two of our very own faculty members, Dr. Dima Arzyutov and Dr. Yana Hashamova, as well as our Chair Dr. Angela Brintlinger, who we thank for continuing to help make our…

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This October, we had the pleasure of welcoming the SEELC Alumni Council for their annual campus visit. During their visit, three of the Alumni Council's members, Natalie Mauser-Carter, Kenneth…

Spring 2026 Language Schedule

Need to enroll in a language class? Do you need to fulfill your GE requirements, or simply want to enhance your education by learning another language? See our schedule below and sign up today! …

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On October 22nd, we had the pleasure of joining our friends and colleagues at the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, the…

Applications to the 2026 CLS (Critical Language Study) Program are open!

Take advantage of this this amazing opportunity for intensive language study over the summer…

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My summer has been a well-balanced mix of teaching, research, reconnecting with colleagues from my previous studies, and spending time with family and friends.

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Dear friends and colleagues!

We invite you to read our 2025 SEELC Newsletter, featuring the Letter from the Chair Dr. Angela Brintlinger below.

Thank you for all your support and…

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Join your friends and colleagues at the Department of Slavic and East European Languages this semester at our upcoming events! Don’t miss the 15th Annual Oulanoff Lecture, the beloved spring…

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Congratulations to our Graduate Student and GTA Kelly Gallagher for publishing her first article, “Gender, Selfhood, and Power in Zamiatin’s We,” this week! We are always proud to see our…

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Dr. Tuxbury-Gleissner, as part of an interdisciplinary team from the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences, has received a 2025 Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA)…

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Join us in congratulating our Professor Emeritus Dr. Brian Joseph, who has been honored with a Brian D. Joseph Chair in Classics, recently established and made possible through the generosity of a…

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Join us in extending a warm congratulations to Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang for her appointment to The Ohio State University Press Board! This appointment is well-deserved and we hope it provides…

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CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. DIMA ARZYUTOV AND DR. PHILIP TUXBURY-GLEISSNER FOR THEIR RECENT PUBLICATIONS!

See Dr. Arzyutov’s most recent article, “Rooting in the Subterranean:…

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Our students drive our passion for education, community, and shared learning experiences. When students are passionate and engaged, we know that they will leave the classroom as more…

Be sure to support the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies in their Buckeye Funder campaign!

Learn more and donate at the Buckeye Funder site today

Founded 60 years…

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The Slavic Department invites you to join us in extending a heartfelt and well-deserved congratulations to two of our faculty members today, Dr. Alisa Lin and Dr. Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner on their…

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Happy Summer! The Summer Adventure Series at the Slavic Department returns with our first edition, featuring our very own Dr. Laura Siragusa.

Dr. Siragusa attended the The 2025…

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The faculty, students, and staff at Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures offer Dr. Brintlinger the warmest congratulations on being named the 2024‑25 Harlan Hatcher Arts…

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Join Slavic/Theatre 3711 for a brief presentation of the scenes they have worked on this semester!

Today, April 18th, at 2:00pm in 350 Theatre, Film, and Media Arts Building

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Congratulations to Dr. Lin on the publishing of her new book: Theatrical Consciousness: The Actor’s Mind in Russian Modernism - Make sure you pick up your copy today!

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Thank you to everyone who came out to our Spring Tea Celebration on Monday! There was a great turnout and plenty of great food and treats.

Congratulations to all the winners of many…

Dr. Yana Hashamova

We extend a heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Hashamova for this tremendous achievement! The SEELC is grateful to have her with us and hope we can continue benefit from her hard work and dedication…

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It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Captain James Connell (MA ’69, PhD ’73), alumnus of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures and member of the…

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Join us for lively Ukrainian language sessions! Open to all levels, from beginners to fluent and native speakers.

Starting January 15h in Crane Cafe. Contact Mykyta Tyshchenko (tyshchenko.1…

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Welcome Professor Marko Babić, the 2025 Slavic Fulbright Scholar from Poland to OSU!

In the cross-listed course Polish/International Studies 5196, Prof. Babić and students will…

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Sign up for our 1 credit, 1st-session Russian Grammar Crash-Course this Spring with Dr. Larysa Stepanova! This course will give students an opportunity to refresh or simply strengthen their…

Become a Research Intern for the The Right to Write: Cataloguing Minoritized Literatures and Cultures in Russia

Are you interested in Russian-language research in Indigenous and Queer Studies? Then the project The Right to Write might be the right place for you! We are looking for a team of six…

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On September 27, Michelle Verbitskaya, a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant, received the Teacher of the Year award from the Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA). Michelle has worked…

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The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures recently had the pleasure of hosting two fantastic scholars for two of our annual lectures. On September 9th, Dr. Victoria Donovan…

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Mark your calendars! We have some exciting events coming up in the next few months that you won't want to miss.
September 27th we are being joined by Dr. Edyta Bojanowska for the annual Hongor…

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Over the summer CSEEES’ outreach coordinator Alicia Baca and SEELC Assistant Professor of Teaching Dr. Diana Sacilowski spent time in Poland conducting research for personal projects as well as…

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We have another Summer Adventure to share! This time we feature Dr. Dima Arzyutov and his European travels. Check out Dr. Arzyutov's story below and be sure to sign up for his course this Autumn -…

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We have another Summer Adventure to share! This time, from Michelle Verbitskaya, one of our Ph.D. students.

Check out her story below:

For the 8th year this June, I taught at the…

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Good afternoon and happy almost-August!

To get you in the learning mood for the new semester, check out this recording of the CUFPI Book Talk: "Resilient Kitchens".

Here Dr. Philip…

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Welcome back to the Summer Adventure Series at the SEELC of The Ohio State University!

This Summer has been filled with so many exciting adventures already, and this week we are…

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Hello and welcome back to another Summer Adventure story!

Today, we are featuring Dr. Philip Gleissner and his wonderful trip to Czechia. Check out his story below, and be sure to stay cool…

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Welcome back to another installation of our Summer Adventure Series! Today we are featuring one of our Graduate Students - Siobhán Seigne and her time this Summer studying in Sofia, Bulgaria…

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Looking for a course that explores the excitement and drama of the Space Race? Sign up for Slavic 3333: The Soviet Space Age today! This online course fulfills your GEs (Foundation: Historical and…

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Welcome once again to the next installation of our Summer Adventure Series! While we are excited for the Autumn Semester to begin, there is still so much time for fun, learning,…

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Today we extend a congratulations to one of our students, Liz McBean, who has been hired as Visiting Lecturer in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Bowdoin College starting next month…

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See our language offerings below!

Have questions? Email ernst.150@osu.edu for more info.

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The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures will see two employees hired last Spring, Joe Ernst and Daniel Pavlovski, continue on in their work this Summer and into the Fall…

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We have several exciting course offerings this Fall! Russian 2850 and Slavic 3800 are great courses that fulfill your GE requirements, while Slavic 4530 fulfills Russian and German major…

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Book awards are a great honor and recognition in academia. Last month, one of our professors received such an award - Dr. Philip Gleissner! The James Beard Awards, established in 1990, are among the…

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In preparation for teaching my new course, Other Russias, in the Autumn, I read Yuri Rytkheu’s When the Whales Leave (translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse).

The…

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We would like to extend a hearty congratulations to one of our faculty members, Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang, who has been appointed as the next Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Culture. Deans…

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We have another story to share in our Summer Adventure Series! This time we hear from Dr. Laura Siragusa, who attended a series of talks in Bordeaux, France. See Dr. Siragusa's story below: "I…

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The SEELC is honored to announce that the College of Arts and Sciences has appointed two of our faculty members, Dr. Matthew Boyd and Dr. Diana Sacilowski as assistant teaching professors in SEELC…

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Introducing our "Summer Adventures Series"! We have asked students and faculty to share with us their activities and escapades this summer. These stories show how we stay engaged and excited about…

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Interested in learning more about Albana? Check out the article below from the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies to learn more!

The Center for Slavic, East European and…

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At the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, we believe we have some of the best faculty at the University. Today, we have another reason to celebrate that fact!

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We invite you to join us in congratulating our graduate students who have worked so hard over the last few years, finally reaching a crucial milestone in their studies:

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We want to give a special thank you to all those who came to the annual Slavic Spring Tea this semester!
Each Spring we celebrate the hard work of our students, and recognize several with the…

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In the first days of April, 2024, the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures had the pleasure of receiving two of our Alumni Advisory Council members - Kenneth…

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On April 1st, 2024 the Twenty-Sixth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture in South Slavic Linguistics met at the Faculty Club to celebrate and continue the scholarly tradition of the late great…

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This week saw the Slavic Spring Talent Show, also known as "Kapustnik", feature Slavic Department students showing off their creative talents. Each semester, language students at the Department…

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The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures extends our warmest congratulations to our Ph.D. student, Sofia Bachman!

Sofia continues to be an integral part of the…

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Associate professor Sunnie Rucker-Chang (DSEELC and AAAS) was awarded a grant in the amount of $113,318 from the US Russia Foundation to support the project “Capacity and Equity Building in…

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By Joe Ernst

Here at the Slavic Department we are constantly striving to create and sustain global connections between people, institutions, and cultures. This spring, one of the Department's Senior Lecturers…

Siobhan Seigne

We would like to congratulate Siobhan for her continued excellence in the Department, and we are very happy to see the Felice M. Grad Scholarship be awarded to her. Siobhan Seigne is a Ph.D…

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In 2024-25, Ohio State’s Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures department will offer FIRST YEAR UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE, taught by Mykyta Tyshchenko. The autumn course will run under the…

Lejla Veskovic

Lejla Veskovic is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Slavic and East European Languages & Cultures, and we welcome you to congratulate her on winning this award!

The Armed Conflicts and Im…

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The 13th annual Undergraduate Olympiada of Spoken Russian took place on Sunday, February 25th at The College of Wooster. Over 20 students from four colleges and universities in Ohio competed in…

Agnieszka Poczta-Wajda, visiting Fulbright Scholar from Poland

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages welcomes our visiting Fulbright Slavic Award scholar Angieszka Poczta-Wajda.

We are so excited to work with Agnieszka as she teaches…

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Here at the Slavic Department, we wanted to extend a well-deserved congratulations to our four new Ph.D. students, Siobhán Seigne, Enes Tastan, Michelle Verbitskaya, and Lejla Veskovic!

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Legacies of the Stone Guest: The Don Juan Legend in Russian Literature by the Slavic Department's very own Dr. Alexander Burry offers unique insights on Russia's political, cultural, and…

Flyer for Russian Table: Mondays from 12:00 to 1:00pm

Come practice speaking Russian with your peers, hosted by graduate students!

Location: Crane Cafe (First Floor of Hagerty)

When: Mondays, 12:00-1:00pm

First…

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In celebration of Halloween, long-time SEELC faculty member Daniel Collins presented a webinar about the supernatural terrors that haunt Slavic folklore: sorcerers, witches, werewolves, Evil Eyes,…

Ekaterina Tikhonyuk

Congratulations to Dr. Ekaterina Tikhonyuk for successfully defending her dissertation, “The Intricacies of Russian Media Landscape During the Putin Era”, earlier this summer. Her committee…

Dr. Yana Hashamova

Dr. Yana Hashamova, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, will serve a one-year term as interim chair of the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) this upcoming academic…

Dr. Brian Joseph Receives Honorary Ph.D. From the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Dr. Brian Joseph, Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and the Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Languages and Linguistics, recently established the Brian D. Joseph Fund for…

New SEELC student Natalia Sletova

Congratulations to Dr. Natalia Sletova for successfully defending her dissertation, “L2 writing as a scaffold for L2 speaking grammatical accuracy in a text-reconstruction task”, earlier this…

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Russian majors Kira Foster and Sophie Papp were awarded Gold and Silver (respectively) medals in their categories in the National Russian Essay Contest.

Russian major Bailee Wolf was…

Dr. Dmitry Arzyutov

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures is thrilled to announce the addition of Dr. Dmitry Arzyutov to our faculty! Dr. Arzyutov comes to Ohio State from the History,…

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Congratulations to SEELC faculty and staff, Drs. Burry, Hashamova, Rucker-Chang and Stepanova, as well as the former Slavic Center Assistant Director Eileen Kunkler, for being awarded the Slavic…

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The 12th annual Russian Undergraduate Olympiada took place on Saturday, February 18th at Bowling Green State University. Over 20 students from four colleges and universities in Ohio competed in…

Dr. Wojciech Lewandowski

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures are pleased to welcome University of Warsaw professor Dr. Wojciech Lewandowski who is our Fulbright “Slavic Scholar” this year.

New SEELC student Aleksandra Shubina

Congratulations to Aleksandra Shubina on her successful completion of her candidacy exams!

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Faculty Search: Indigenous Siberian Studies

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (DSEELC) at The Ohio State University invites applications for a position at the rank…

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We’re glad to welcome everyone back to our department and are excited to welcome some brand-new faces!

Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang joins us as Associate Professor of Slavic. Dr. Rucker-Chang has…

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Dr. Helena Goscilo, a leading U.S. scholar in Slavic literature, culture, and film, retired from The Ohio State University in May 2022. Dr. Goscilo came to Ohio State from the University of…

Dr. Philip Gleissner

COVID-19 has deeply disrupted the ways we make, consume, and think about food. Together with his collaborators, our colleague Dr. Gleissner has created a community archive of how we ate during the…

Dr. Brian Joseph Receives Honorary Ph.D. From the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Joseph (Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Languages and Linguistics), who recently received an…

Dr. Yana Hashamova

It's with great enthusiasm that we announce that Dr. Yana Hashamova has been selected as a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures!…

Dr. Ludmila Isurin

Dr. Ludmila Isurin's latest monograph, Reenacting the Enemy: Collective Memory Construction in Russian and US Media, has just been published by Oxford University…

Bakers for Ukraine Webinar Panel

On Tuesday, March 29th, the Department of Comparative Studies and the Ohio State Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies co-hosted a webinar panel discussion of Canadian-British…

Dr. Angela Brintlinger

On Wednesday, April 20, Dr. Angela Brintlinger was appointed Chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures for a four-year term by the College of Arts and Sciences. …

Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang

The Department of Slavic and East European Studies welcomes new hire Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang, who join us in autumn 2022 as Associate Professor of Slavic with a 25% appointment in African American…

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Ohio State students did incredibly well at the Undergraduate Olympiada of Spoken Russian held this past Saturday at Bowling Green University. Congratulations to all of our students who…

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Many of our Russian language students participated in the Saint Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg, Russia) Olympiad of Russian as a Foreign Language in the USA. The Olympiad competition…

Dr. Ludmila Isurin

Dr. Ludmila Isurin has been awarded a grant by The James S. McDonnel Foundation through Washington University, St. Louis to support her work on a new monograph project tentatively titled “Two…

New SEELC student Natalia Sletova

Congratulations to SEELC Graduate Student Natalia Sletova, whose paper based on her post-MA study has been accepted for publication by a high-ranking journal, Foreign, Language Annals!

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Aleksandra Shubina and Sofia Bachman have each been awarded an Arts and Humanities Small Grants to present their work at the annual American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European…

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Congratulations to Drs. Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren (Duke University), who have just published Polish Cinema Today: A Bold New Era in Film (Lexington Books, August 2021)!

Dr. Jarosław Szczepański

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures welcomes Dr. Jarosław Szczepański a 2021-22 Polish Fullbright Grantee. Dr. Szczepański holds a PhD in Political Science and LL.D…

Dr. Larysa Stepanova

Congratulations to Dr. Larysa Stepanova, who received a vGlobal Teaching and Learning Grant from the Ohio State Office of International Affairs! Dr. Stepanova will use the grant to develop her…

New SEELC student Natalia Sletova

Congratulations to Natalia Sletova, who received a Language Teaching and Learning Research Award from The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the…

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Congratulations to NSEP Boren Scholarship recipient James Hall. Next year, James will be studying abroad in Kyiv, Ukraine, taking Russian language classes…

Dr. Yana Hashamova

Dr. Yana Hashamova (Professor, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences) and Dr. Caroline T. Clark (Professor, Department of Teaching and…

Ohio State Garden of Constants

After the 2020 K-12 Russian Olympiada was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SEELC and the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) successfully held the 2021…

Dr. Brian Joseph

The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosova has put together a book, Albano-Balkanological Observations, with a translation into Albanian of everything Dr. Brian Joseph has written about…

Gabbie Fisher

Gabbie Fisher, a second-year Russian major, was recently named an ambassador to the US-Russia Pre-Professional Network (USRP) administered by the Russian American Foundation! The USRP is a growing…

Dr. Epp Annus

Dr. Epp Annus received the 2021 Estonian National Research Award in the field of the humanities “for development of a philosophical-methodological paradigm for Soviet postcolonial studies and for…

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There's even more snow in Columbus today, so we asked some of our faculty, staff, and students about some of their favorite media to enjoy on a snowy day. See of some of the responses below!

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Ohio State Garden of Constants

Earlier this year, the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (SEELC) partnered with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) to offer a January Term (J…

Dr. Brian Joseph

At the beginning of the year, Dr. Brian Joseph was elected an external member of the Kosova Academy of Sciences.

Congratulations on this well-deserved honor Dr. Joseph!

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It is with great sorrow the we announce the passing of Emeritus Professor Dr. George Kalbouss.

Dr. Kalbouss taught in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures …

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The Guido, Olga, and Roland G. Dartau Scholarship honors the memory of the Dartau family. Roland Dartau was born in 1931 in Riga, Latvia. He was the son of Olga Mikhailovna Nikolaeva Dartau and…

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SEELC Graduate Student Katya Tikhonyuk's review of of Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons by John Etty has been published in European Comic Art (vol…

Russian Major Alejandra Schwarz

Russian major Alejandra Schwarz was recently awarded a Global Arts + Humanities Undergraduate Society of Fellows Research Fellowship. In her own words below, Alejandra describes what drew her to…

Ohio State Garden of Constants

Dr. Jennifer Suchland was recently been named a 2020 Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellow. Her project, “Abolition Today: An Initiative for Public Reflection on Human Trafficking and Criminal…

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To all of our majors, minors, and students who took courses in our department, thank you for all of your hard work and dedication during this most unprecedented term! Since we were not able to…

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Sydnee Wilke, who graduates this spring with a double major in Russian and international studies, has been awarded a 2020 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award.

The…

Ohio State Garden of Constants

All SEELC events scheduled for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester have been cancelled. This includes:

March 20, Kalbouss Lecture March 25, Spring Kapustnik April 3, Naylor Lecture April…

Students at the 2020 Undergraduate Olympiada of Spoken Russian

On Saturday, February 29th over 40 undergraduate students from Bowling Green State University, the College of Wooster, Kent State University, Ohio State University, and Ohio University…

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Dr. Izolda Wolski-Moskoff was elected President of the North American Association of Teachers of Polish! To learn more about the organization, please visit the North American Teachers of Polish…

Viktoriia Kim

Congratulations to Viktoriia Kim, who is being recognized by the Sphinx Senior Class Honorary and the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society for her impact on students!

Dr. Brintlinger gives a Russian cuisine presentation at Walnut Hills High School

On Thursday, December 5, Dr. Angela Brintlinger visited three Russian language classes at Walnut Hills High School. Over the course of three hours, the 38 students prepared four different Russian…

Dr. Philip Gleissner

Dr. Philip Gleissner recently received a Collaborative Faculty Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences Larger Grants Program for his symposium Red Migrations: Marxism and Transnational…

Dr. Alisa Lin

Congratulations to Dr. Alisa Lin, whose recent work That Third Guy has been shortlisted for best scholarly translation for the AATSEEL book prizes. For more information on Dr. Lin and her…

Cover of 'Seasoned Socialism: Gender & Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life'

Dr. Brintlinger's edited volume Seasoned Socialism: Gender & Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life is featured in a piece by the Moscow Times. You can read the full write up on the Moscow…

Ray Alston's Russian 1103 class performs a skit about sneaking cats in your luggage

We had a great turnout at the Autumn 2019 Kapustnik! Thank you to all who participated and attended. For more information on the event and to see some photos of the most recent performances,…

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Congratulations to Dr. Hope Wilson for successfully defending her dissertation, Teaching language and culture through online ethnographic exploration, earlier this week! Her exam…

SEELC staff with the 412th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne)

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures collaborated with the 412th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) for enhanced joint operations in Interpreter Training Workshop…

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Congratulations to Dr. Stepanova, who for the second year in a row, has received an Undergraduate Recruitment Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences. This grant helps fund the annual High…

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Congratulations to Dr. Yuliya Buquoi for successfully defending her dissertation, Influences of Intergenerational Transmission of Autobiographical Memories on Identity Formation in First…

Izolda Wolski-Moskoff

Congratulations to Dr. Izolda Wolski-Moskoff for successfully defending her dissertation, Case in Heritage Polish: A Cross-Generational Approach, earlier this week! Her…

Dr. Brian Jospeh Presented with a Festschrift in his Honor by Dr. Andrea Sims

RIght before the start of the 22nd Naylor Memorial Lecture, Dr. Brian Joseph (SEELC/Lingusitcs) was honored with a Festschrift on the 40th anniversay of his service at Ohio State. The Festschrift,…

Dr. Alisa Lin

Dr. Alisa Lin has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, supporting her work on the book "Theatrical Consciousness: Actor and Self in Russian Modernism, 1898-1934."…

2019 High School Olympiada of Spoken Russian Group Photo

This past Saturday at The Ohio State University, thirty-seven students from Roy C. Start High School, the Russian Education Center Bookvarel, St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, Toledo Technology…

Dr. Larysa Stepanova with SEELC Student Rebecca Slavik

Dr. Larysa Stepanova has been recognized by the Sphinx Senior Class Honorary and Mortar Board Senior Honor Society for her genuine interest in the educational development of students and for…

Romanian Club at Taste of OSU 2019

On Friday, February 15, the Ohio State Romanian Club participated in the 2019 Taste of OSU. 30 different student organizations participated in the food competition, and the Romanian Club received…

Russian Alphabet in cursive

It was a great wekend for the Ohio State Russian language students who competed at the Undergraduate Russian Olympiada at Kent State University. Out of five levels, Ohio State students finished in…

SEELC Collaboration with the US Army Civil Affairs

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures partnered with the a US Army Civil Affairs unit for a language and culture workshop. The goal was to conduct conversational,…

Wolski Moskoff

Izolda Wolski-Moskoff received a grant through Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to participate in the collaborative project at the University of Chicago, “Transforming Language Instruction at the…

Brian Joseph

Dr. Brian Joseph (Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics/SEELC and Linguistcs) assumed the presidency of the Linguistic…

New CSEES Director Dr. Angela Brintlinger

Dr. Angela Brintlinger (Professor, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) has been appointed as the director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, and began…

Philip Gleissner

Dr. Philip Gleissner is the winner of Princeton's Center for Digital Humanities' Dissertation Prize for his work "Through Thick and Thin: The Social Life of Journals Under Late Socialism." The…

Dr. Brintlinger

This week, Dr. Angela Brintlinger wrote a piece detailing the life of famed Russian author and dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, for Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspectives…

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The Department of Slavic and East European Langauges and Cultures welcomes two new faculty members, Drs. Philip Gleissner and Jennifer Wilson! Learn more about their research and areas of…

V. Rev. Mateja Matejic

The Very Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejic, professor emeritus of the OSU Slavic Department, died July 27, at age 94. His son, Professor Predrag Matejic, wrote his obituary which may be viewed below.

Dr. Anastasiia Gordiienko

Earlier this month, Anastasiia Gordiienko successfully defended her dissertation "Russian Shanson as Tamed Rebel: From the Slums to the Kremlin". Her exam committee consisted of Dr. Helena Goscilo…

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Congratulations to our students who reached department milestones this spring!

Ekaterina Kolbasova received her M.A. from SEELC

Tatiana Melnikova passed her general…

Mr. Alston

Ray Alston successfully defended his dissertation “Singing the Myths of the Nation: Historical Themes in Russian Nineteenth-Century Opera” earlier this month. His exam committee, Dr. Alexander…

Dr. Brian Joseph

Dr. Brian D. Joseph, Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics, has been elected to the position of Vice President/President…

Dr. Brintlinger

Dr. Angela Brintlinger's article "Mothers, father(s), daughter: Svetlana Aleksievich and The Unwomanly Face of War" has just been published in the Canadian Slavonic Papers.

Brian Joseph

Dr. Brian Joseph, Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics, along with Marie de Marneffe (Linguistics), Micha Elsner …

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This summer Professors Wendy Hesford (English), Amy Shuman (English), and Jennifer Suchland (Slavic/WGSS), took eight Ohio State University students to see first hand where human rights work is…

Mirror Lake

During his commencement address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke on the importance of the humanities both in the world today and in the future. An excerpt can…

Dr. Yana Hashamova

Yana Hashamova, professor and chair, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, has been named associate researcher of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (Institute of…

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Dr. Ludmila Isurin will be a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München during summer 2018!

Congratulations Dr. Isurin!

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In September 2017, Ohio State will host the 36th Second Language Research Forum . The proposal to host this event was put together by Hope Wilson (DSEELC), Kathrin Frenzel (Germanic Languages and…

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On November 5th, Dr. Ludmila Isurin's Russian 4135: Russian Pronounciation class was featured on the Russian news program "Vremya". Fast forward to the 4:15 mark to see the class in action!

Slavic Linguistic Society Meeting Ad

The department was well represented at the most recent Slavic Linguistics Society meeting, held in September 2016 at the University of Toronto. Faculty member Andrea Sims gave an…

Dr. Yana Hashamova and Dr. Jennifer Suchland

This summer, two Slavic Department faculty, Dr. Yana Hashamova and Dr. Jennifer Suchland, received Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme Grants. You can find descriptions of their projects below.

Dr. Alisa Ballard

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures is proud to welcome our new assistant professor Dr. Alisa Ballard to Ohio State! She researches 19th- and 20th-century Russian…

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Dr. Andrea Sims and Dr. Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona) received an NSF grant to organize a two-day workshop, Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition, at the Linguistic Society of…

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Congratulations to Dr. Michael Furman for defending his dissertation "Playing with the punks: St. Petersburg and the DIY ethos" earlier today! His committee included Dr. Jennifer Suchland (advisor…

Ayesha Hamza receiving Student Internship Program Award

Interview by Jessi Jones

I managed to catch up with one of our recent graduates, Ayesha Hamza, by email right before she departed for Russia. She was chipper and happy to be…

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It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our colleague and friend Charles Edward Gribble, Professor Emeritus of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, on June 3, 2016…

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Congratulations to Dr. Chen Zhang for defending her dissertation "Russian Writers Confront the Myth: The Absence of the People’s Brotherhood in Realist Literature" at the end of the spring term!…

Introduction to Putin Photo exhibit

This spring Dr. Helena Goscilo curated an exhbit featuring photos of Russian President Vadlimir Putin. The Exhibit is up for display in the Hagerty Hall Gallery on the first floor of the building…

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INTERVIEW WITH JOSEPH DEVENY

Major/Minor: Double major, German and Russian

1.) First, please tell me a little bit about yourself, where you grew up, what you did to occupy your time as…

Dr. Brian Baer welcomes participants to the 2016 Undergraduate Olympiada of Spoken Russian

Congratulations to all participants of the Undergraduate Russian Olympiada this past weekend at Kent State University. Over 30 Ohio State Russian language students participated in the competition,…

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Dr. Ludmila Isurin received the Language Learning Board of Director's annual award for most outstanding article for her article co-authored with Dr. Christy Seidel "Traces of memory for a…

Crime and Punishment

Dr. Brintlinger recently published a piece in the OSU on-line magazine ORIGINS on the 150th anniversary of Crime and Punishment. Her article is entitled "Crime and Punishment, 150 Years…

Spring 2016 film line up poster

The Spring 2016 Russian Film Series Line-up is complete!

Join us on select Wednesdays at 6pm in Mendenhall Lab 115 as we screen a terrific assortment of Slavic films

* this…

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We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Andrea Sims on the publication of her new book,

Brian Joseph

Dr. Brian Joseph (Linguistics/SEELC) received an Arts and Humanities Large Grant to support his upcoming work “The Herodotos Project: Towards an Ethnohistory of Ancient Peoples”.

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We like to keep track of our alumni to support and promote they work that they do related to our field!

Check out this article written by Alex Pantich, OSU graduate with a specialization in…

Flyer with information about the Food Drive

December 1-15, our Holiday Food Drive will be in full swing!

Bring your food goods to Hagerty Hall 400!

'Tis the season of giving, so lets help those in our Columbus community…

Photograph of Kenny in front of frozen Lake Baikal in Russia

We like to keep track of our majors and minors after they graduate and recently we caught up with Kenny Hensley, back from 3 years in Russia working as a teacher and translator.

OSU Students on the Global May Hungary Program

This May, undergraduate students from Ohio State participated in the Global May Hungary program. To document their travels and what they learned, students created mutlimedia projects. The Office…

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The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures is proud to welcome our new assistant professor, Dr. Ines Garcia de la Puente, to Ohio State! She has been hired as a translations…

Jared Palazza at Fulbright orientation

Congratulations to three Slavic undergraduate students -- Ryan Hedrick, Jared Palazza, and Daniel Petrick -- who have been awarded Fulbright…

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The Slavic Department is happy to announce that three graduate alumni -- Dusty Wilmes, Kate White, and Anastasia Smirnova -- have accepted new…

O čem je morfologie

Congratulations to SEELC faculty member Andrea Sims on the publication of O čem je morfologie (Karolinum Press 2015), co-authored with Martin Haspelmath. The book is a…

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DSEELC graduate student Katya Rouzina received the George and Emily Severinghaus Beck Scholarship for her studies at the Vilnius Summer Institute. Well done Katya!

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On April 21, 2015, the Slavic Center and Slavic Department hosted the annual Spring Tea. Despite unexpected interruption by a fire drill, staff, faculty and students got together to talk, eat, and…

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Congratulations to Dusty Wilmes, who succesfully defended his dissertation "Projecting Social Concerns: Auteur Cinema in the Putin Era" at the end of April! The committe consisted of Dr. Yana…

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Cogratulations to Kate White, who successfully defended her dissertation "Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition in Context" at the end of April! The committee consisted of Dr. Ludmila Isurin …

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Congratulations to Helen Myers, who successfully defended her dissertation "A Semiotic Revaluation of Russian Prose Fiction in Modern Russian Film Adaptations" in April! The committee consisted of…

Lauren Ressue

Congratulations to Lauren Ressue, who in April defended her dissertation, "Reciprocity in Russian: an investigation of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic interfaces." The committee consisted of…

Mirror Lake

Nina Haviernikova was awarded an Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant, which will partially fund her participation in the Globalizing Sociolinguistics Conference at the University of…

Dr. Yana Hashamova and Dr. Jennifer Suchland

Yana Hashamova, Professor of Slavic Studies (PI) and Jennifer Suchland, Associate Professor of Slavic Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (co-PI) have been awarded a two-year…

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SEELC welcomes students to apply for deparmental awards for all of their hard work in Slavic studies over the last year! Please visit the "Grants, Fellowships, and Awards" section of the…

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On Saturday, March 21, nearly 30 students from across Ohio came to the Ohio State campus to participate in the 2015 High School Russian Olympiada. The Olympiada competition is the oldest of all…

OSU Students at the 2015 Undergraduate Russian Olympiada

This year’s Undergraduate…

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Congratulations to Ryan Perkins, who has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant! He will use to the money to pay research participants for his experimental…

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Professor Jennifer Suchland received the Arts & Humanities Larger Grant award for her project "Domesticating Human Trafficking: Re-signifying Violence in the United States."

Congratulations…

Fade from red: The Cold War ex-enemy in Russian and American film 1990-2005

Congratulations to SEELC Professor Helena Goscilo on the publication of her and Margaret Goscilo's new book, Fade from Red: The Cold-War Ex-Enemy in Russian and American Film, 1990-2005 …

Jeff Parker

Congratulations to Jeff Parker, whose paper "Solving Russian velars: Palatalization, the lexicon and gradient contrast utilization" has been accepted for publication in the Slavic and East…

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Kate White and Michael Furman are co-authors with Prof. Ludmila Isurin on the paper "Talking to a stranger: Linguistic and non-linguistic behavior of Russian immigrants during 2010…

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DSEELC PhD candidate Helen Myers' article "Patterns of Adaptation and Integration of English Loanwords in Lithuanian and Russian" has just been publish in the latest addition of Acta Linguistica…

Jeff Parker

Jeff Parker has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship for his dissertation work, titled "Inflectional complexity and lexical access: An experimental study of Russian inflectional paradigms".

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The 2015-16 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship competition is now open! The fellowship is open to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to study the Bosnian-Croatian…

Robin Smith, on left, with her Russian host sister wearing traditional Tatar hats called tubeteikas

Second year Honors student and Russian major Robin Smith was one of two students selected for a student profile by the College of Arts and Sciences from all of the language and cultural studies…

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This summer, lecturer and interim language coordinator Marina Pashkova and graduate student Ana Kabakova were awarded a $10,000 seed grant from the University Center for the Advancement of…

Dr. Hashamova at Bejing University

From May 17th through 25th, Chair of the Slavic Department Prof. Yana Hashamova taught a course on the cultural representation of minorities in Russian film for the Research Center of Russian…

During May Term 2014, undergraduate students traveled to Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia as part of the Global May Hungary program, led by Prof. Jessie Labov (Slavic).

Check out their…

poster for the "Cupcake donut cronut" event

Prof. Brian Joseph (Slavic and Linguistics Departments) was recently featured in the U.S. News & World Report story "How language changes, courtesy of Yelp and the Gray Lady". The article…

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Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Suchland, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!

Professor Suchland is joint appointed in the Department of Slavic & East European…

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Congratulations to Sara Ceilidh Orr, who has successfully defended her dissertation, "The Scrivener De-Scribed: Logos and Originals in Nineteenth-Century Copyist Fiction." The…

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The department is very happy to announce that former SEELC graduate student (Ph.D. 2013) and current lecturer David McVey has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor…

Soviet poster advocating for the non-use of foul language

Check out the blog post that Prof. Angela Brintlinger published recently on the website of the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia: http://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/back-ur…

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Congratulations to SEELC graduate student Dusty Wilmes , who was awarded second prize in the journal Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema’s competition for the best…

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Katerina Rouzina has received one of five grants awarded for Best Abstract submitted by a graduate student to the 9th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society. She will use the money to…

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On April 15, 2014, the the Slavic Department and the Slavic Center held the traditional end-of-year Spring Tea. In addition to good food provided by the Center (and terrible weather that forced us…

Eric Connelly

Eric Connelly, a recent undergradute in the department, has received a Fulbright Award to teach English in Russia for 2014-2015. There he hopes to share his love for the language learning process,…

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Although we will miss him, the department is very happy to announce that former SEELC graduate student (Ph.D. 2013) and current lecturer Robert Mulcahy will be leaving us to…

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Congratulations to DSEELC graduate students Ray Alston and Katya Rouzina on the successful completion of the MA exams!

Ray will be awarded an MA in Slavic…

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Graduate student Justin (Dusty) Wilmes has been awarded an Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship and an OIA Grant. He will use the money to defray costs of conducting his dissertation…

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Congratulations to graduate student Jeff Parker, who has been awarded an Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS) from the Graduate School.

Jeff will use…

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Congratulations to the newly-minted Dr. Yuliya Walsh, who successfully defended her dissertation on April 3rd! The dissertation, titled "Forms of Address in Contemporary Ukrainian…

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Congratulations to Dr. Brintlinger!

Professor Angela Brintlinger has received a Faculty Workshop/Conference Grant from the Mershon Center for International Security Studies for her project …

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Asst. Prof. Jessie Labov has received a Senior Fellowship from Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies for 2014-2015.

Her project, "Virtual Cold War Networks…

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SEELC graduate student Hope Wilson has been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship to study Tatar at Indiana University's SWSEEL program in summer 2014.

Hope…

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On March 26th, linguistics major Michael De Matto presented his honors BA thesis research at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum.

Michael's project, "Everything…

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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Andrea Sims, who has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the journal Word Structure.

Word Structure is an…

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Slavic Department Alumna Elizabeth Blake has published a new book with New York University Press, Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground.

While Dostoevsky's relation to religion is…

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Congratulations to Dusty Wilmes who has been awarded a 2013-2014 Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant of $500.00. This award will defray costs associated with…

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Congratulations to Greg Ormiston who has been awarded a 2013-2014 Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant which will defray costs associated with presenting his work at the American…

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Congratulations to Katya Rouzina who has been awarded a 2013-2014 Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant. This award will defray costs associated with presenting her work at the Society…

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Congratulations to Dusty Wilmes for receiving a Presidential Fellowship. This fellowship recognizes outstanding scholarship and research ability and provides recipients the opportunity to devote…

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Congratulations to David McVey for successfully defending his dissertation, "Man Enough: Multiple Masculinities in the Films of Pavel Lungin?"

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Thanks to everyone for helping to make another successful Kapustnik!

The winners were:

1st Prize: Dusty Wilmes' Russian 4101 class

2nd Prize: Lejla Bijal's BCS class

3rd…

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The following books were awarded a 2013 Arts & Sciences Book Cover Award:

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Once the Bolsheviks vanquished the Whites in the…

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It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the 2013 AWSS Heldt Prize Committee has decided to award Yana Hashamova's article, “War Rape: (Re)defining Motherhood, Fatherhood, and…

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Congratulations are due to Helen Myers, who published an article on the "Distribution of Uncontracted and Contracted Imperfect Verbs in the Old Russian Manuscript of the Eleventh-century…

Russian Alphabet in cursive

Congratulations to graduate student Ceilidh Orr and Language Programs Coordinator Spencer Robinson, who have been awarded a $10,000 seed grant from the University…

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Slavic Department faculty members Yana Hashamova and Angela Brintlinger have been promoted to Full Professor! Their promotions received final approval from the…

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The annual Slavic Spring Tea was an opportunity to relax with colleagues, eat good food, and enjoy some beautiful weather. A big "Thanks!" to the Slavic Center staff for organizing the event, and…

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Michael Furman has been awarded an International Affairs Grant from the Office of International Affairs at Ohio State. He will use the money to conduct pre-dissertation research in St. Petersburg,…

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Congratulations to Anastasia Kostetskaya on her successful defense of her dissertation on May 2, 2013! The Water of Life and the Life of Water: The Metaphor of World Liquescence in the Poetry,…

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Congratulations to graduate student Mike Furman, who has recently had his paper "Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness: A descriptive analysis" accepted for publication in the forthcoming edited…

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Congratulations to Peter Marzalik, an undergraduate majoring in Russian and International Studies, who recently took third place (Humanities division) at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum!…

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Congratulations to DSEELC graduate student Anastasia Kostetskaya, who has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Hawai'i!

Before settling in…

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Congratulations to Jeff Parker, who was recently awarded a fellowship to attend the 2013 Linguistic Institute! The Institute is put on by the Linguistic Society of America every other summer and…

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An exhibit at the CMA, "Strings Attached: The Living Tradition of Czech Puppets," will be opening at the Columbus Museum of Art this Friday, and will run through August 4. It is a collaboration of…

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Congratulations to Gregory Ormiston who has received a Title VIII Graduate Fellowship in the amount of $5,300 to study Russian in Kiev this summer through the Arizona State University Critical…

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Congratulations to Dusty Wilmes who published an article in the latest volume of Pushkin Review (Volume 15, 2012) titled "Anticipating Chekhov: Tragicomic Elements in Griboedov's Woe from…

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In the middle of a snowstorm on a Saturday morning, members of the Polish American Club came to meet with Polish Club students and Polish language students to play a new board game, Kolejka…

Checkov for the 21st century book

Congratulations to Angela Brintlinger, who is co-editor with Carol Apollonio (Duke University) of the volume Chekhov for the 21st Century. The book has been published by…

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Congratulations to Andrew Kier, who successfully defended his dissertation on December 28, 2012!

The dissertation is titled "The semantics of Russian 'about' prepositions: A…

book cover, featuring soviet soldiers in the trenches, for "Chapaev and his comrades"

Congratulations to Prof. Angela Brintlinger, whose new monograph Chapaev and his Comrades: War and the Literary Hero Across the Twentieth Century was published in December 2012 by…

Prof. Angela Brintlinger has received a Fulbright grant to travel to Warsaw, Poland in the Spring 2013 semester, to teach and conduct research for her project “World War II, Afghanistan, and…

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Last Wednesday, instructors and students of Slavic and East European languages got together once again to show off their language and acting skills at Kapustnik, a talent show that has long been a…

book cover for "Memory, language, and bilingualism: theoretical and applied approaches", featuring a person's heads filled with mechanical gears

Congratulations to Dr. Ludmila Isurin on the publication of her edited volume "Memory, Language, and Bilingualism" on November 1 ,2012 through the Cambridge University Press!

Her book…

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The 10th Annual Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics was held on Oct. 27, 2012. The day-long conference featured papers by graduate students from Ohio State, Temple University, University of…

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Congratulations to graduate student Jeff Parker, who has received both a Ray Travel Award and a travel grant from the Complexity in Human, Natural, and Engineered Systems group at The Ohio State…

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Congratulations to Mike Furman on recieving the Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant!

Mike will be using the grant to defer travel expense to the meeting of the American…

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Congratulations to DSEELC graduate students Kate White and Anastasia Kostetskaya, who have been awarded 2012-2013 Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grants!

Kate White will use her…

Pussy Riot band photo

Professor Jennifer Suchland has published a timely and useful analysis, "Contextualizing Pussy Riot in Russia and Beyond," in the online journal e-International Relations. By examining…

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Congratulations to DSEELC graduate students Yuliia Aloshycheva and Jeff Parker, who have been awarded 2012-2013 Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grants!

Yuliia will use her $300…

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Congratulations to Prof. Irene Delic on her new book, From Symbolism to Socialist Realism, which has been published by Academic Studies Press.

Developed as a reader for upper…

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Mary-Allen (Pasha) Johnson has been appointed as Assistant Professor and Associate Curator of the Hilandar Research Library (HRL), Special Collections and Area Studies, OSU Libraries.

Lisa…

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Undergraduate student Peter Marzalik is learning more than intensive Russian this summer. The double-major in Russian and International Studies (concentrating in security and intelligence) has had…

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Congratulations to Angela Brintlinger, Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, who has been appointed to the Board of The Ohio State University…

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Eight Ohio State faculty members have received a $175,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to organize a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures. The collaborators on…

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Each year The Ohio State Unversity's Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures initates its outstanding students into Dobro Slovo, the National Slavic Honor Society. Originally…

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On Saturday, March 31, 17 undergraduates from around Ohio gathered at Ohio State to participate in the Undergraduate Olympiada of Russian. The Olympiada is held each year by the Center for Slavic…

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Congratulations to Nina Haviernikova, who was recently awarded a College of Humanities Graduate Small Research Grant in the sum of $400! These awards will be put toward financing her research trip…

White and Parker receiving their awards

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures recognized some of its outstanding undergraduate and graduate students at the end-of-year Slavic Tea. The following students were…

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Congratulations to Dr. Ludmila Isurin on her new monograph! Russian Diaspora: Culture, Identity, and Language Change has been published by de Gruyter.

The book presents a broad…

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On March 19, 2012, the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures hosted the Ohio High School Olympiada of Spoken Russian. This competition is part of a national competition…

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A big congratulations to Adam Wanter on receiving a $3000 scholarship from the Arts and Sciences Honors Committee for his research proposal!

The title of his thesis is "Three Paths to One…

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The Office of International Affairs is now offering an exciting new summer program based in Budapest, Hungary, but will also feature a trip to Warsaw, Poland! The program will last 4 weeks,…

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We would like to take the time to congratulate to the Russian Club on receiving 2nd place prize for Taste of OSU this year!

For more details about Taste of OSU and this year's winners, go…