• The Slavonic Studies Section is unique in the United Kingdom in offering postgraduate opportunities in Polish, Russian and Ukrainian. The research interests of its academic staff span a wide range of topics in the languages, literature, visual and cultural history of Poland, Russia and Ukraine, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
  • The intellectual vitality of the Section is evident in its thriving research areas: medieval Rus culture; early-modern Ruthenian culture, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian literary and cultural studies of the 19th and 20th centuries, cinema studies, nationalism studies; memory studies, visual culture, sensory history, and Slavonic linguistics.