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Department of Slavonic Studies Ranked Top in UK

The º£½ÇÉçÇø has been judged the best in the UK for Russian and East European Studies in the 2016 University Subject Tables compiled by .

‘We are always honoured when the accomplishments of our students and staff are acknowledged’, said Dr Rory Finnin, Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies and Chair of the º£½ÇÉçÇø Committee for Russian and East European Studies. ‘We are committed to advancing the study of Poland, Russia and Ukraine in Great Britain and contributing to our field in any way we can.’Ìý

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What would it take to fake a sonnet by Louise Labé?

2 July 2025

Timothy Chesters weighs in on the authorship controversy over France’s most famous female Renaissance poet, Louise Labé (c.1520-1564).Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Labé’s lover, forged her poems...

Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland

15 June 2025

With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and...

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