Dear Colleagues and Students,
The Department of Modern
Languages and Cultural Studies (MLCS) at the University of Alberta (Canada) invites
applications for graduate study in the Ukrainian Culture, Language and
Literature Program, which offers both MA and PhD degrees. Literature
students can pursue a degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures with a
concentration in Ukrainian; students interested in linguistics can complete a
program either in Slavic Linguistics or in Slavic Applied Linguistics.
The department’s Ukrainian
literature courses cover all periods, from Kyivan Rus' to post-colonial
Ukraine. Linguistics courses study Ukrainian in the context of West and East
Slavic languages, offering also a perspective on the current sociolinguistic
situation in Ukraine. The program
includes courses devoted to Ukrainian-English translation of literary and
non-literary texts.
Literature scholars in the
Ukrainian program conduct research on Early-Modern culture; Romanticism;
Modernism and Avant garde; the writings of Soviet Ukrainian dissidents;
Postcolonial and Post-imperial cultural spaces; as well as on Postmodernism. Linguistic
research focuses on discourse, pragmatics, gender linguistics and language
pedagogy. All four professors are conversant with other Slavic and European
cultures and take a comparative approach to the study of Ukrainian disciplines.
Students may combine Ukrainian with the study of Comparative Literature, French,
German, Italian, Polish, Russian, and/or Spanish, as well as Ukrainian
Folklore. They may also pursue degrees in Translation Studies and in Humanities
Computing.
The department provides a vibrant
international environment for learning. Graduate students in Ukrainian study
literary or applied linguistics theory together with students in other
disciplines. They also learn to teach Ukrainian as a second language in a
general MLCS course devoted to language pedagogy. Graduate
students in the department organize an annual international conference, devoted
to topics of their own choice. Among the various journals housed in MLCS,
is Canadian Slavonic Papers. Thus,
graduate students also have the opportunity to learn about the production of a
scholarly journal.
The University of Alberta is
an ideal place for the study of Ukrainian subjects. The Slavic holdings of our
libraries are among the richest in North America. The History and
Classics Department has several historians who work on Ukraine, the Russian
Empire, as well as on Ukrainian-Canadian topics. The university has a formal
exchange with the University of Lviv.
It is also the home of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, an
important research center devoted to historical disciplines and diaspora
studies. The program and the university regularly welcome internationally
recognized scholars in Ukrainian studies as guest speakers and visiting
lecturers.
Graduate students in the
Ukrainian program have held some of the most prestigious scholarships offered
by the University of Alberta, including the Izaak
Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship and the F.S. Chia Doctoral Scholarship. MLCS offers the Vasyl' Stus Graduate Recruitment Scholarship to
promising applicants. Financial support is also available in the form of
Teaching and Research Assistantships. Students wishing to enter the Ukrainian
program with financial support in September 2010 should apply by December 1,
2009.
International students are
advised to take their TOEFL as early as possible (at least four weeks before the December 1 deadline), so as to benefit from the
variety of funding opportunities available at the University of Alberta.
Feel free to contact the
staff of the Ukrainian Program to discuss your research interests and visit
their respective pages:
Oleh Ilnytzkyj <http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/mlcs/staff-ilnytzkyj.htm>
Alla Nedashkivska <http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/mlcs/staff-nedashkivska.htm>
Natalia Pylypiuk <http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/mlcs/staff-pylypiuk.htm>
Irene Sywenky <http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/mlcs/staff-sywenky.html>
For more information about
pursuing graduate degrees in Ukrainian, please contact Oleh Ilnytzkyj, Graduate Advisor, at <oleh.ilnytzkyj@ualberta.ca>
For information about the department's admission procedure, please visit
<http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/mlcs/admissions.htm>
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Posted by Natalia Pylypiuk
