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Subject: The Ph.D. degree in Russian Literature at Princeton

The Princeton Slavic Department offers the Ph.D. degree in Russian
Literature. 

https://slavic.princeton.edu/graduate-program/information-prospective-applic
ants

The program provides students with a firm foundation in their major area as
well as the opportunity to explore related fields, for example: comparative
literature, literary theory, and other Slavic languages and literatures.

The aim of our graduate program is to further interest, knowledge, and
scholarship relating to Russia and Slavic Central Europe, primarily through
the cultural humanities. To this end we urge our students to explore new
intellectual paths and approaches, having first provided them with a strong
background in the Russian literary tradition, an introduction to major
schools of theory, and the opportunity to conduct research abroad.

Princeton's graduate program is small, with usually no more than two
students entering each year. This enables us to offer graduate students
accepted into the program a support package for the entire five years
required to complete the degree. Princeton provides a scholarly, small-town
atmosphere in close proximity to both New York City and Philadelphia.

Admitted graduate students are offered a stipend of full tuition and fees
together with a five-year fellowship that includes summer salary.  The
program of study is flexible enough to allow students with different
backgrounds the opportunity to explore areas of special interest (which may
extend beyond the Slavic Department and even beyond Princeton).  Meetings
with professors - both formal and informal - are frequent, and advanced
graduate students work closely with their dissertation advisors.

Our students play a central role in the life of the Department in ways that
hone their professional skills - teaching language and/or literature,
helping select speakers, participating in the dissertation colloquium, and
organizing conferences. They also take active part in the profession,
presenting papers at national and international conferences and publishing
in journals in the field.

Candidates accepted into the program receive full funding (full tuition,
health insurance, and living stipend) for five years. As part of this award
- and as part of their professional training - students normally teach at
least two semesters of literature, language, or both, usually after the
general examinations. 

Students are in residence full-time during the first two years, doing course
work and preparing for the general examination which usually takes place at
the end of the second or the beginning of the third year. Upon passing the
examination, students begin work on the dissertation and receive supervised
training in undergraduate teaching together with classroom experience. In
the fourth year students may opt to conduct dissertation research abroad.
The fifth year is spent in residence teaching and completing the
dissertation.


https://slavic.princeton.edu/graduate-program/information-prospective-applic
ants

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