Russian Studies
Welcome to the web page of the Russian
Program of William and Mary's Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures. We offer four full years of language training as well as a
variety of courses in Russian literature, cinema and culture that are
taught 
in English. Many of our literature and culture courses in
translation fulfill General Education requirements and can be used as part of a concentration in Literary and Cultural Studies and Film
Studies. At the present, students may choose between an
interdisciplinary concentration and a minor in Russian Studies through
the Global Studies and a minor in Russian Language and Literature. Study abroad
is an important component of the Russian program. In addition to our
own faculty-directed six-week intensive summer program at St.
Petersburg University, students are encouraged to spend a semester or
full academic year studying at Russian universities.
Our guest speaker, Mr. John Carlson (Army Lieutenant Colonel, Ret.), has served as Chief and Senior Presidential Translator on the "Moscow Hotline" since 1989.Red Moon Rising is Available on Google Video (Russian Studies 2008)
Russian Studies students complete the mockumentary about Soviet space trip to the Moon, "Red Moon Rising."Lecture: “On Chaplin in Russian Avant-Garde Art” (Russian and Film Studies, 2008)
Yuri Tsivian will look at what Soviet avant-garde artists of the 1920s made of Charlie Chaplin; at his image as a "Taylorist actor;" at his impact on Kuleshov's workshop; and, more closely, at one movie which Russians thought was Chaplin's, but which Chaplin never made. Dedicated to Centenary of Russian Cinema.Kurt Carlson (Russian Studies Student) receives 2008 Dobro Slovo Scholarship
Dobro Slovo Scholarship Advisory Committee is happy to announce that Kurt Carlson received the 2008 Dobro Slovo Scholarship award.
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