Course summary

Doctorate-level study is an opportunity to make an original, positive contribution to research in Russian Studies. Join our interdisciplinary community and undertake your PhD under the guidance of our experienced and well-published supervisors. The first lecture in Russian was given at the University in 1919, and Russian Studies was introduced as a degree programme in 1949, the first of its kind in Scotland. Research excellence In the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), our research in Russian Studies was submitted in Modern Languages and Linguistics (Panel D - Arts and Humanities; Unit of Assessment 26). The results reaffirm Edinburgh’s position as one of the UK’s leading research universities - third in the UK. As published in Times Higher Education's REF power ratings, this result is based on the quality and breadth of our research in the unit of assessment. Our staff have received many prestigious research awards including the AHRC-awarded projects ‘Global Russians: Transnational Russophone Networks in the UK’ (2016-2021) and ‘Reconfiguring the Canon of Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry, 1991-2008’ (2010-2013). Our expertise covers a wide range of areas, including:

• social, political and cultural perspectives on Russian language

• transnational Russian culture

• Russian literature

• media

• film studies

• theatre studies

• comparative literature

• linguistics

• politics

• translation studies