Overview
About the program
The graduate faculty’s scholarly expertise allows students to develop a foundation in Russian with special emphasis on culture and cinema from the Enlightenment to the present.
The Slavic Languages and Literatures curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh challenges students to develop their own research questions informed by theoretical paradigms that have emerged over recent years across the humanities and social sciences.
Together with the curriculum, the scholarly profile of the department provides a framework to develop a solid knowledge of the cultural trajectory of the Russian-speaking world; analytic-conceptual skills for critical engagement with formalist, structuralist, and postmodern theoretical models; and writing skills necessary in the field of Russian cultural studies.
Programme Structure
Recent literature seminars have included the following topics:- Russian Journals
- Folklore
- Silver Age
- Symbolist Prose
- Formalism and Structuralism
- 20th Century Drama
- Literature and Society in the 19th Century
- Autobiography and Memoirs
- Russian Women's Culture
- Solzhenitsyn
- Pushkin
- Russian Narrative Poem
- Bakhtin and the Novel
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 96 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
Credits
- 72 graduate credits (36 beyond the M.A.)
Delivered
Disciplines
Area & Cultural Studies Language Studies Literature View 117 other PhDs in Literature in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Completed application form.
- Statement of Purpose. Approximately 2 pages, double-spaced, this statement describes the applicant’s academic training and research interests.
- Personal statement (including a statement about diversity). Approximately 2 pages, double-spaced.
- Transcript copies uploaded online. All undergraduate and graduate transcripts are required.
- Three letters of recommendation. Typically, letters come from faculty or other persons who are able to speak about the applicant’s capacity for graduate work in the discipline.
- Writing sample in English. This should be the applicant’s most mature work of scholarship to date. Typical length: approximately 20-25 pages, double-spaced. An optional (second) writing sample in Russian may also be submitted.
Tuition Fee
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43804 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 43804 USD per year during 96 months. -
National
43804 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 43804 USD per year during 96 months. -
In-State
25834 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 25834 USD per year during 96 months.
Living costs for Pittsburgh
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Scholarships Information
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