SLAV-PHD - Slavic Languages and Literatures (PhD)

Stanford Slavic PhD graduate program aims at training future scholars and teachers of Slavic languages and literatures. Students specialize in literature and cultural studies of the area of the former Russian Empire/Soviet Union or Eastern Europe, combining a core curriculum with independent research early in their graduate career.

Students begin with courses leading to a series of qualifying exams in the core literary tradition and defense of the qualifying paper, then progress to articulating an individuated program which leads to an exam in a related field, and, finally, to the defense of dissertation prospectus and to writing the dissertation.

Stanford Slavic PhD graduate program welcomes students with interdisciplinary interests. Slavic students may pursue an official PhD minor in Film, Folklore, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, History, Art History, Anthropology, etc., as well as develop individually designed areas of specialization. The Slavic Department works in collaboration with the programs of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and with the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.