REEEC faculty affiliate Valeria Sobol (Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures) has been selected as LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar for the academic year 2021-2022. Each year, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences awards those faculty that have shown exemplary scholarship and teaching amongst those being promoted to Professor.
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Applications Due: January 29, 2021
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Film Screening on January 27, 2:00-4:00 PM CST: Ver Vet Blaybn? (Who Will Remain?)
Race in Focus: Spring 2021 Sessions
REEEC faculty affiliate Harriet Murav (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature) has received an honorable mention from the Modern Language Association (MLA) Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for her book David Bergelson’s Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity, published by Indiana University Press.- Please find a list of Spring 2021 courses with content on the REEES region. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and you may find additional courses in course explorer.
Faculty Spotlight: REEEC Faculty Affiliate Eda Derhemi (Teaching Associate Professor of French and Italian) Recognized for Translating Albanian Novel into Italian
REEEC faculty affiliate Eda Derhemi (Teaching Associate Professor of French and Italian) and Francesco Ferrari (PhD candidate in French and Italian) were recognized for translating the Albanian novel “Miele sul Coltello" into Italian.
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- By Tabitha Cochran (MA Student, REEES and LIS)
- By Jamie Hendrickson (MA Student, REEES)
- By Quinn O'Dowd (PhD Student, Sociology)
Calendar
SLAV 505This class is designed to give you a foundation in the development of Russian from its genesis in Proto-Slavic up to the modern-day language.
RUSS 122A survey of the interactions between key African American figures and Russian culture, in a historical and socio-political context.
REES 201Interdisciplinary survey of Eastern Europe focusing mostly on the 20th century to the present, exploring issues of nationalism, socialism, post socialism and EU accession.
IS 461This course is intended to provide all necessary tools for the conduct of effective research in the field of Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies for both scholars and librarians.
