Slavic 576: Methods in Slavic Graduate Study

Lilya Kagonovsky

Wednesdays 2 - 4:50

A foundational course in theoretical and methodological approaches to
Slavic studies. This semester the course will focus on the Soviet 20s
and 30s, modernism, the avant-garde, and socialist realism. Literature,
film, history; theories of modernity; theories of gender, sexuality,
and the body; attention to constructions of subjectivity and the
subject; formalist, psychoanalytic, and post-structuralist approaches
to understanding early Soviet culture, beginning with the Revolution
and ending with the show trials. Graduate standing required. Knowledge
of Russian strongly encouraged.