Postgraduate Research Fellowship in Slavonic Languages and Cultures 2019, University of Glasgow, UK

OVERVIEW

Slavonic Studies at Glasgow belongs to a thriving School of Modern Languages and Cultures, with a lively research environment and postgraduate community.  The Language Resources Library, with its wide range of resources and up-to-date equipment, houses a major collection of contemporary and classic Central East European cinema, while the Main Library holdings in the Slavonic and Eastern European area (some 80000 volumes), and a Special Collection that includes early translations of the Bible into Czech, Polish and Russian and a unique set of Trotsky items, make it one of the richest resources in the western world. Our research and teaching collaborations with colleagues within SMLC as well as from across the Colleges of Arts (History, History of Arts) and Social Sciences (Central and East European Studies, Education, and Politics) provide our research students with a potentially unique competence in the area. Members of staff co-edit two of the leading journals in the field, Slavonica and Avtobiografiia, and hold key roles in international and national research and subject-area networks.

We would welcome proposals from any area of Slavonic Studies, but particular research strengths include:

• Czech and Polish media
• Censorship in communist and post-communist Central Europe
• Czech cinema since 1989
• Polish drama ‘written outside the nation’
• Memory studies (particularly Polish/Jewish relations)
• Gulag literature and writing
• Samizdat
• Auto/biographical studies
• Post-1945 Czech identity and travel writing
• The theatre of Chekhov in Spain
• Russo-Hispanic cultural and literary relations

Research Convenor:Dr John Bates Email: John.Bates@glasgow.ac.uk

STUDY OPTIONS

PhD

• Duration: 3 years full-time; 5 years part-time
• Thesis length: 70,000-100,000 words, including references, bibliography and appendices (other than documentary appendices).

A Doctor of Philosophy may be awarded to a student whose thesis is an original work making a significant contribution to knowledge in, or understanding of, a field of study and normally containing material worthy of publication.

MLitt (Research)

• Duration: 2 years full-time; 3 years part-time
• Thesis length: 40,000-70,000 words (including references, bibliography and appendices).

Our Degree of Master of Letters (Research) requires you to undertake a postgraduate course of special study and research that represents a distinct contribution to knowledge.

MPhil (Research)

• Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time
• Thesis length: 30,000-40,000 words (including references and bibliography).

A Master of Philosophy (Research) requires you to undertake a postgraduate course of special study and research that represents a distinct contribution to knowledge.

MRes

• Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time
• Thesis length: 18,000-30,000 words (including references, bibliography and appendices).

Our Master of Research includes both taught and research elements. You will be required to undertake 60 to 80 credits worth of taught courses as well as independent study which represents some contribution to knowledge.

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