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Nobel Prize awarded to journalist Svetlana Alexievich

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". Her works capture…

Global May Hungary Program Highlights

This May, undergraduate students from Ohio State participated in the Global May Hungary program. To document their travels and what they learned, students created mutlimedia projects. The Office…

SEELC Welcomes New Assistant Professor!

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures is proud to welcome our new assistant professor, Dr. Ines Garcia de la Puente, to Ohio State! She has been hired as a…

Three Slavic students receive Fulbrights

Congratulations to three Slavic undergraduate students -- Ryan Hedrick, Jared Palazza, and Daniel Petrick -- who have been awarded Fulbright English Teaching Associate (ETA) Fellowships for 2015-…

Three alumni accept academic positions

The Slavic Department is happy to announce that three graduate alumni -- Dusty Wilmes, Kate White, and Anastasia Smirnova -- have accepted new academic positions.

Dusty Wilmes (Ph.D. 2015 in…

O čem je morfologie

Congratulations to SEELC faculty member Andrea Sims on the publication of O čem je morfologie (Karolinum Press 2015), co-authored with Martin Haspelmath. The book is a Czech translation of their…

Katya Rouzina Awarded George and Emily Severinghaus Beck Scholarship!

DSEELC graduate student Katya Rouzina received the George and Emily Severinghaus Beck Scholarship for her studies at the Vilnius Summer Institute. Well done Katya!

Spring tea and end-of-year awards 2015

Dusty Wilmes Defends Dissertation

Congratulations to Dusty Wilmes, who succesfully defended his dissertation "Projecting Social Concerns: Auteur Cinema in the Putin Era" at the end of April! The committe consisted of Dr. Yana…