15 Jan. deadline: Two Pitt PhDs (Literature/Culture; Film Studies/Slavic concentration)

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The University of Pittsburgh Slavic Department (http://www.slavic.pitt.edu/) invites applications to its program, which provides a full range of courses with particular strengths in the study of contemporary Russian culture, Russian/Soviet cinema, and Russian Romanticism. Our program has supported dissertations in such areas as contemporary Russian prose, Soviet postmodern culture, Thaw cinema, 1930s-40s Soviet civic poetry, prison culture of the Belomor Canal, post-Soviet philosophy, the Soviet anekdot, and Stagnation-era television serials.  PhD recipients have received academic job offers or prestigious post-doctoral fellowships in such institutions as Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Stanford Humanities Center, University College London, University of Texas Austin, Vanderbilt, and William and Mary.

PhD students receive extensive mentoring; they help organize the annual Russian Film Symposium (http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu); or edit and publish the Department's journal, Studies in Slavic Cultures (http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/sisc/).  Alongside primary study, students typically obtain MA or PhD certificates in these interdepartmental programs:
.       Cultural Studies (http://pitt.edu/~cultural/)
.       Film Studies (http://www.filmstudies.pitt.edu/)
.       Russian and East European Studies (http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/)
.       Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (http://www.wstudies.pitt.edu/)
By PhD conferral, students will have teaching experience in culture, cinema, language, and literature courses (team-taught and stand-alone formats).

Students with a particular interest in Film Studies may apply to Pitt's Interdisciplinary Film Studies PhD with a concentration in Slavic, thereby working towards a single PhD in two disciplines. Application to the Film Studies PhD degree may be made as part of the initial application to the University, or students may apply initially only to the Slavic Department and later apply internally for transfer to the Film Studies PhD. For information, see http://www.filmstudies.pitt.edu/graduate/interdisciplinary-phd.

Financial aid (both non-teaching fellowships and teaching assistantships) is available to qualified applicants. Applications will be accepted until Friday, 15 January 2016 and must be submitted electronically at https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=up-as.  For more information, see http://www.slavic.pitt.edu/.

In case of questions, please write to Christine Metil, Administrator,  [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> or [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; Prof. Nancy Condee, Director of Graduate Studies,  [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; Prof. David J. Birnbaum, Chair,  [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.

Prof. N. Condee, Director
Global Studies Center (NRC Title VI)
University Center for International Studies
University of Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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