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UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures

Our department was founded in 1948 and promotes and encourages the study of Slavic, East European an in Russian Language and Literatures
B.A. and Ph.D.

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is located in Westwood, a small community within Greater Los Angeles, located six miles east of the Pacific Ocean. Buses link the campus transportation center on Hilgard Avenue with downtown Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Los Angeles International Airport (see living in L.A.). The Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures was founded in 1948 and is based in the Humanities Building. Its Slavic Reading Room houses an extensive research library including the Markov Archive of Modern Russian Poetry and the James Ferrell Slavic Linguistics Collection. In the Department’s "Russkaia komnata" (Russian Room), students at all levels of proficiency have the opportunity to converse with native speakers. The Department prides itself on the breadth and scope of its offerings. The Russian literature program includes specialists in every historical period, from the medieval to the postmodern. The linguistics program covers synchronic, diachronic, and comparative Slavic linguistics. Currently we teach five Slavic languages

Russian
Ukrainian
Polish
Czech
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

as well as three non-Slavic languages

Hungarian
Lithuanian
Romanian

We also offer courses in translation theory and in language teaching methodology, stressing the use of contemporary instructional technology. Programs of study lead to the following undergraduate degrees:

B.A. in Russian Studies
B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures
B.A. in Central and East European Languages and Cultures

Undergraduates may also minor in Russian Language, Russian Literature, Russian Studies, and Central and East European Studies. For details, see Undergraduate Program. On the graduate level, we offer M.A. degrees in Slavic Literatures and Linguistics. For a closer look at the requirements and the course offerings, see Graduate Program. Our department enjoys one of the best records in the country for placing its doctoral students. It maintains this competitive edge because it gives graduate students a demanding and rich academic program, hands-on teaching experience in literature and language courses, and intensive mentoring. All students admitted to this highly selective graduate program receive multi-year support packages. For further information, see Graduate Program.

01/13/2026

Registration for Summer 2026 opens on February 1st for UCLA students and February 18th for visiting students! Visit https://summer.ucla.edu/ for more information.

11/04/2025

COME STUDY AT UCLA!

Join us at our Virtual Open House for Prospective PhD Students

Tuesday, November 18th
2-3pm PST

RSVP by Monday, November 17th to receive a Zoom link!
https://forms.gle/d3EVuX8chnb2aFrv8

The Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at UCLA invites applications for our M.A. / Ph.D. program in Slavic and East European studies for Fall 2026, with Ph.D. specialization in either literature or applied linguistics. Students beginning or continuing their graduate education at UCLA (including those who have completed an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures or related fields) are guaranteed five years of financial support, including graduate fellowships, teaching assistantships, research mentorships, participation in faculty-led research projects, and the opportunity for an editorial assistantship at the UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies, one of the few publications for undergraduate students focusing on Slavic and East/Central European topics.
Beyond Russian, the UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures regularly offers Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, and Ukrainian; we also have expertise in Bulgarian, Church Slavic as well as Czech. Our faculty teach a broad range of courses ranging across the disciplinary fields of medieval studies, the eighteenth century and Golden Age, versification, literary history and theory, capitalism and the rise of the novel, Slavic romanticism, Russian modernism, Polish and Ukrainian literatures and cultures, film and media, the digital humanities, and theoretical and applied linguistics. For more on faculty specializations, please see https://slavic.ucla.edu/faculty/

Students and researchers at UCLA have ready access to a wide array of resources, including the consortium of University of California libraries; the UCLA Film and Television Archive; the Getty Museum and Research Institute; and the Wende Museum. The department regularly sponsors lectures, presentations, and screenings from leading scholars, artists, and activists, and collaborates closely with the departments of Comparative Literature (including its Program in Experimental Critical Theory); European Languages & Transcultural Studies (ELTS); Gender Studies; History; and Linguistics; as well as with the Center for European and Russian Studies; the Luskin School for Public Affairs; the School for Theater, Film, and Television; the Center for World Languages, the National Heritage Language Resource Center, the Inter-Departmental Program in the Study of Religion and other units. Graduate students benefit from pedagogical training in the UCLA Russian program and gain teaching experience as TAs for large lecture courses in Slavic cultures, literatures, film, and linguistics. They also have an opportunity each year to present their research at the annual California Graduate Slavic Colloquium, together with graduate students from Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, USC, and UC San Diego.
The deadline for national and international applicants is January 15, 2026. For additional information and the application portal, please visit the department website: https://slavic.ucla.edu/graduate/admissions/

For other questions about the program, please contact the Faculty Graduate Advisor, Professor Vadim Shneyder ([email protected]) and the Student Services Advisor, Brianna Boling ([email protected]).

10/25/2025

6:00pm PST
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Royce Hall Room #314

The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures, in co-sponsorship with the Consulate General of Romania in Los Angeles, and with permission from the Romanian Cultural Institute, is pleased to present a screening of Maria, Heart of Romania.

The documentary presents to the public the extraordinary story of the political role and the interesting private life of Queen Marie of Romania. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, she married the Crown prince of Romania in 1893. We will see how she ruled the country during the horrors of the First World War, until the victory at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
This event requires advance registration and is in-person only. Seating is limited to 120 attendees and tickets are free. Light refreshments will be provided.

Register to attend on the UCLA Slavic department website: slavic.ucla.edu/events

04/17/2025

11/12/2024

CANCELLED 11/13/24 Cultural Forces of Ukraine Performance

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

10/29/2024

COME STUDY AT UCLA!

Join us at our Virtual Open House for Prospective PhD Students

Tuesday, November 19th
1-2pm PST

RSVP by Monday, November 18th to receive a Zoom link!
https://forms.gle/5bmKyeu1ni3vZTq3A

The Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at UCLA invites applications for our M.A. / Ph.D. program in Slavic and East European studies for Fall 2025, with Ph.D. specialization in either literature or applied linguistics. Students beginning or continuing their graduate education at UCLA (including those who have completed an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures or related fields) are guaranteed five years of financial support, including graduate fellowships, teaching assistantships, research mentorships, participation in faculty-led research projects, and the opportunity for an editorial assistantship at the UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies, one of the few publications for undergraduate students focusing on Slavic and East/Central European topics.

Beyond Russian, the UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures regularly offers Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, and Ukrainian; we also have expertise in Bulgarian, Church Slavic as well as Czech. Our faculty teach a broad range of courses ranging across the disciplinary fields of medieval studies, the eighteenth century and Golden Age, versification, literary history and theory, capitalism and the rise of the novel, Slavic romanticism, Russian modernism, Polish and Ukrainian literatures and cultures, film and media, the digital humanities, and theoretical and applied linguistics. For more on faculty specializations, please see https://slavic.ucla.edu/faculty/

Students and researchers at UCLA have ready access to a wide array of resources, including the consortium of University of California libraries; the UCLA Film and Television Archive; the Getty Museum and Research Institute; and the Wende Museum. The department regularly sponsors lectures, presentations, and screenings from leading scholars, artists, and activists, and collaborates closely with the departments of Comparative Literature (including its Program in Experimental Critical Theory); European Languages & Transcultural Studies (ELTS); Gender Studies; History; and Linguistics; as well as with the Center for European and Russian Studies; the Luskin School for Public Affairs; the School for Theater, Film, and Television; the Center for World Languages, the National Heritage Language Resource Center, the Inter-Departmental Program in the Study of Religion and other units. Graduate students benefit from pedagogical training in the UCLA Russian program and gain teaching experience as TAs for large lecture courses in Slavic cultures, literatures, film, and linguistics. They also have an opportunity each year to present their research at the annual California Graduate Slavic Colloquium, together with graduate students from Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, USC, and UC San Diego.

The deadline for national and international applicants is January 15, 2025. For additional information and the application portal, please visit the department website: https://slavic.ucla.edu/graduate/admissions/

For other questions about the program, please contact the Faculty Graduate Advisor, Professor Vadim Shneyder ([email protected]) and the Student Services Advisor, Brianna Boling ([email protected]).

10/21/2024

The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures, in co-sponsorship with the UCLA Center for World Languages and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, is pleased to present a film screening of A Rising Fury on Monday, November 18th, 2024 in Bunche Hall 2209A from 6:00-8:00 pm.

Please register to attend on the Slavic dept website:
https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/a-rising-fury-film-screening/

10/16/2024

Ukrainian Poetry in a Time of War: A Reading and Discussion with Olena Huseinova and Lyuba Yakimchuk

October 17, 2024
5:15 pm - 7:00 pm
Kaplan Hall 348

RSVP on the Slavic dept website:
https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/ukrainian-poetry-a-reading-and-discussion-with-olena-huseinova-and-lyuba-yakimchuk/

10/15/2024

The Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles in partnership with the UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures proudly presents on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Franz Kafka death, a literary reading of the latest novel by Magdaléna Platzová "Life After Kafka". The author Platzová will in person introduce on Wednesday, October 16th at 3:30 PM at UCLA Kaplan Hall Room #311 her novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka's first fiancée.

Join us for the event celebrating one of the world's most acclaimed writer, and learn more about the story behind Kafka's Letters to Felice and even discover the connection between Kafka and California. The one of a kind lecture will be introduced by Efraín Kristal, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at UCLA. The book is translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker.

When & Where:
Wednesday, October 16, 3:30 pm
UCLA
Kaplan Hall Room #311 (third floor)
415 Portola Plaza,
Los Angeles, CA 90095

RSVP:
Please confirm your attendance by Monday, October 14, 2024 to: [email protected]

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Los Angeles, CA
90095

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Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm

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http://www.slavic.ucla.edu/

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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is located in Westwood, a small community within Greater Los Angeles, located six miles east of the Pacific Ocean. Buses link the campus transportation center on Hilgard Avenue with downtown Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Los Angeles International Airport (see living in L.A.). The Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures was founded in 1948 and is located on the third floor of Renée and David Kaplan Hall. Its Slavic Reading Room houses an extensive research library including the Markov Archive of Modern Russian Poetry and the James Ferrell Slavic Linguistics Collection. In the Department’s "Russkaia komnata" (Russian Room), students at all levels of proficiency have the opportunity to converse with native speakers. The Department prides itself on the breadth and scope of its offerings. The Russian literature program includes specialists in every historical period, from the medieval to the postmodern. The linguistics program covers synchronic, diachronic, and comparative Slavic linguistics. Currently we teach five Slavic languages Russian Ukrainian Polish Czech Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian as well as three non-Slavic languages Hungarian Lithuanian Romanian We also offer courses in translation theory and in language teaching methodology, stressing the use of contemporary instructional technology. Programs of study lead to the following undergraduate degrees: B.A. in Russian Language and Literature B.A. in Russian Studies B.A. in Central and East European Languages and Cultures Undergraduates may also minor in Russian Language, Russian Literature, Russian Studies, and Central and East European Studies. For details, see Undergraduate Program. On the graduate level, we offer M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Slavic Literatures and Linguistics. For a closer look at the requirements and the course offerings, see Graduate Program. Our department enjoys one of the best records in the country for placing its doctoral students. It maintains this competitive edge because it gives graduate students a demanding and rich academic program, hands-on teaching experience in literature and language courses, and intensive mentoring. All students admitted to this highly selective graduate program receive multi-year support packages. For further information, see Graduate Program.