Russian MPhil

Programme overview

MPhil: a standalone, one-year (full-time) research degree. Students will undertake their own research project, concluding in the submission of a 25,000 word dissertation. Students may have the option to audit units from our taught Masters courses if they are relevant to their research.

The Department of Russian has an outstanding record of research. We pride ourselves on our strong, active research culture, while the research interests of staff span a broad range of disciplinary emphases.

We can support postgraduate research in many areas within the following broad fields:

Russian prose fiction from the 19th century to the present
19th- and 20th-century Russian poetry
19th- and early 20th-century Russian intellectual history
20th-century Russian drama and theatre
Russian and Soviet cinema
Russian and Soviet history
Modern Russian cultural studies
Czech and Slovak literature from the 19th century to the present
Russian and comparative literature
Russian Orthodox culture.

This research degree is also available via distance learning.

Careers

A large number of graduates from this programme develop careers in higher education or work on high-level research projects in the field of Russian and Czech; some graduates take up careers in translating and interpreting.