Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature

  • walls, Bridges and Crevasses in a Global World
    Colin Turner鈥檚 spray-paint installation is one of the 22 pieces of art displayed in the exhibit 鈥溍渂er Mauern hinweg-Beyond Walls,鈥 now housed at the Media Library of the Anderson Language and Technology Center in the Hellems Arts and Sciences building.
  • Russian Literature since 1991
    Russian Literature since 1991 is the first comprehensive, single-volume compendium of modern scholarship on post-Soviet Russian literature. The volume encompasses broad, complex and diverse sources of literary material - from ideological and historical novels to experimental prose and poetry, from nonfiction to drama.
  • Arctic
    There probably is not a more suitable location for one of the world鈥檚 first interdisciplinary certificates in Arctic studies than the 麻豆影院.
  • Mark Leiderman, professor and chair of the CU-麻豆影院 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures, calls on a student during class. Born and educated in Russia, Leiderman contends that the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, underscores the importance of Russian Studies. He notes that Russian studies are expanding at CU.
    For Svetlana Alexievich, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Soviet Union is a kind of 鈥榟istorical Chernobyl that still produces contamination and radiation鈥攑sychological, historical, political and cultural,鈥 CU-麻豆影院 expert Mark Leiderman observes. He says now is a good time for students and the world to learn more about Russia, and the university has already moved to meet that need.
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