Department of Slavonic Studies

Supervision and Teaching Arrangements

The Department is responsible for the provision of courses of lectures for all the scheduled papers in the Tripos relating to Slavonic and for the organisation of language instruction, including oral supervision. Language classes are given by many members of the Department, but overall responsibility for language teaching in Russian lies with Mrs Natasha Franklin.

ALLOCATIONS TO LANGUAGE CLASSES for Beginners and Post A-level Students will take place at the beginning of the academic year. New students should ensure that they attend the relevant meetings/diagnostic tests. Click here for more information. Following this, lists assigning students to the various classes are posted on the departmental notice board at the beginning of term. Students with unavoidable timetable clashes should consult the Departmental secretaries.

The Department organises a series of study meetings at the beginning of the academic year for most scheduled papers at Part I and Part II. Click here for more information. Unless their college has made prior arrangements, students will be allocated supervisors at these meetings.

The Department in conjunction with all other departments in MML arranges a meeting at the end of the Lent term for all students intending to take scheduled papers in Slavonic in Part IB and Part II of the Tripos, when lecturers give brief outlines of the papers with which they are most closely associated and students have the opportunity to meet them and have their questions answered. You will, of course, find links to descriptions of the scheduled papers, but it may be useful here to identify the lecturers responsible for broad areas of the syllabus in Slavonic Studies:

• Early Rus pre-1300: Prof Simon Franklin (Cl)
• Moscovite and Early Modern Russia: Dr Jana Howlett (JE)
• Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and thought: Dr Aleksander Etkind (K), Dr Susan Larsen (F)
• Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: Dr Emma Widdis (T)
• Russian History (nineteenth and twentieth centuries): Dr Chris Ward
• History of the Russian Language and the Slavonic Languages: Dr Kylie Richardson (TH)
• Ukrainian Language, History and Culture: Dr Rory Finnin (R)

The Head of the Department is willing to talk with students about particular problems or difficulties and to advise students who are contemplating further studies for the MPhil and PhD degrees. She can be contacted by email on ekw1000@cam.ac.uk.

Supervisors

Part IA Scheduled Papers

Supervisions are formally responsibility of colleges, but in practice the Department organises supervisions for all scheduled papers centrally. Principal supervisors for each paper are:

• Paper Ru A3: Introduction to Russuaian Culture
  Dr Susan Larsen (F), Dr Emma Widdis (T), Dr Jana Howlett (JE)
  

• Paper Ru 1: Introduction to Russian Culture
  Dr Susan Larsen (F), Dr Emma Widdis (T), Dr Jana Howlett (JE)

Part IB/Part II Scheduled Papers

• Paper Ru 3: The history and culture of Early Rus
  Professor Simon Franklin (CL)
• Paper Ru 4: Early Modern Russia: literature, history, and visual culture from 1300 to 1725
  Dr Jana Howlett (JE)
• Paper Ru 5: Russian Culture from the Golden Age to the Silver Age
  Dr Alexander Etkind (K)
• Paper Ru 6: Russian culture after 1880
  Dr Emma Widdis (T), Dr Susan Larsen (F)
• Paper Ru 7: Russia in Revolution 1861 - 1917
  Dr Chris Ward
• Paper Ru 8: Socialist Russia 1917 - 1991
  Dr Chris Ward
• Paper Ru 9: The history of the Russian language
  Dr Kylie Richardson (TH)
• Paper Uk1: Introduction to the Language, Literature and Culture of Ukraine
  Dr Rory Finnin (R)
• Paper Uk2: Studies in Tentieth Century Ukrainian Literature and Film
  Dr Rory Finnin (R)
• Comparative Studies: Paper CS 3: The Slavonic languages
  Dr Kylie Richardson (TH)

N.B Names in italics are the lecturers principally responsible for the particular papers.