Course summary

Our PhD Russian and East European Studies programme will enable you to carry out a piece of significant, original research under the supervision of our academics. Staff in Russian and East European Studies conduct research of an interdisciplinary nature across a broad range of subjects, including:

• 19th and 20th-century literature and intellectual history;

• Soviet and post-Soviet cinema and the media;

• Gender studies;

• Memory studies;

• Nationalism and ethnic politics historically and in the post-communist period;

• Post-communist transition in East Central Europe.

• Our staff's externally-funded current research projects include:

• Reframing Russia for the Global Mediasphere: From Cold War to Information War (AHRC);

• Russian Nationalism and the Ukraine Crisis: The Impact of Nationalist Actors on Russian Foreign Policy (The European Commission);

• Self-Sustained Civil Society in Eastern (and Western) Europe (the British Academy).