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ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ Slavonic Studies Research Initiatives

The Slavonic Studies Section of the ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ promotes international excellence in research over a wide array of topics in the study of language, literature, thought, history and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Our scholarly remit extends from WrocÅ‚aw and Kharkiv to St Petersburg and Vladivostok. Our primary specialisms are Pre-Modern East Slavic culture; Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries; Film and Visual Culture; Slavonic Linguistics; Nationalism Studies; Memory Studies; and Russian Sensory History.

Below is an outline of the research architecture of the Slavonic Studies Section. Our very active series of events, most of which are free and open to the public, can be foundÌý. Individual research profiles of the Slavonic Studies staff are listedÌýhere.

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Slavonic News

What would it take to fake a sonnet by Louise Labé?

2 July 2025

Timothy Chesters weighs in on the authorship controversy over France’s most famous female Renaissance poet, Louise Labé (c.1520-1564).Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Labé’s lover, forged her poems...

Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland

15 June 2025

With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and...