Slavistics

Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist researching Slavistics. Increasingly, historians, social scientists, and other humanists who study Slavic cultures and societies have been included in this rubric.

In the United States, Slavic studies is dominated by Russian studies. Ewa Thompson, a professor of Slavic studies at Rice University, described the situation of non-Russian Slavic studies as "invisible and mute".

History

Slavistics emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, simultaneously with Romantic nationalism among various Slavic nations, and ideological attempts to establish a common sense of Slavic community, exemplified by the Pan-Slavist movement. Among the first scholars to use the term was Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829).

The history of Slavic studies can be divided into three periods. Until 1876 the early Slavists concentrated on documentation and printing of monuments of Slavic languages, among them the first texts written in national languages. At this time the majority of Slavic languages received their first modern dictionaries, grammars, and compendia. The second period, ending with World War I, featured the rapid development of Slavic philology and linguistics, most notably outside of Slavic countries themselves, in the circles formed around August Schleicher (1821–1868) and around August Leskien (1840–1916) at the University of Leipzig. At this time, Slavonic scholars focused on dialectology.

After World War II, centers of Slavic studies were created at various universities around the world, with much greater expansion into other humanities and social science disciplines. This development was partly due to political concerns in Western Europe and the North America arising from the Cold War. Slavic studies flourished in the years from World War II into the 1990s, though university enrollments in Slavic languages have declined since then.

Subfields

Following the traditional division of Slavs into three subgroups (eastern, southern, western), Slavic studies are divided into three distinct subfields:
* East Slavic studies, encompassing the study of East Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
** Belarusian studies, or Belarusistics ();
** Russian studies, or Russistics ();
** Rusyn studies, or Rusynistics ();Kassianova (2002), p. 1001
"''Rusinistica'', or Carpatho-Rusyn studies - a social science discipline focusing on the history of an Eastern Slavic people inhabiting the northern and southern slope of the Carpathian mountains and living within the borders of several Eastern and Central European countries."
** Ukrainian studies, or Ukrainistics ();
* South Slavic studies, encompassing the study of South Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
** Bosniac studies, or Bosniacistics ();
** Bulgarian studies, or Bulgaristics ();
** Croatian studies, or Croatistics ();
** Macedonian studies, or Macedonistics ();
** Montenegrin studies, or Montenegristics ();
** Serbian studies, or Serbistics ();
** Slovene Studies, or Slovenistics ();
** Yugoslav studies, or Yugoslavistics ();
* West Slavic studies, encompassing the study of West Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
** Czech studies, or Bohemistics ();
** Kashubian studies, or Kashubistics ();
** Polish studies, or Polonistics ();
** Slovak studies, or Slovakistics ();
** Sorbian studies, or Sorbistics ().

Slavic countries and areas of interest

* By country:
** Belarus: language, literature, culture, history
** Bosnia and Herzegovina: language, literature, culture, history
** Bulgaria: language, literature, culture, history
** Croatia: language, literature, culture, history
** Czech Republic: language, literature, culture, history
** North Macedonia: language, literature, culture, history
** Montenegro: language, literature, culture, history
** Poland: languages/dialects ( Polish, Kashubian, Silesian), literature ( Polish, Kashubian), culture, history
** Russia: language, literature, culture, history
** Serbia: language, literature, culture, history ( national and ethnic)
** Slovakia: language, literature, culture, history
** Slovenia: language, literature, culture, history
** Ukraine: language, literature, culture, history
** Other languages: Serbo-Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian, Kashubian, Polabian, Rusyn, Old Church Slavonic

Notable people

;Historical

* Johann Christoph Jordan, the author of an early scholarly work in Slavic studies
* Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829) from Bohemia
* Jernej Kopitar (1780–1840) from Slovenia
* Alexander Vostokov (1781–1864) from Russia
* Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787–1864) from Serbia
* Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861) from Slovakia
* Mykhaylo Maksymovych (1804–1873) from Ukraine
* Izmail Sreznevsky (1812–1880) from Russia
* Franz Miklosich (1813–1891) from Slovenia
* Fyodor Buslaev (1818–1898) from Russia
* August Schleicher (1821–1868) from Germany
* Đuro Daničić (1825–1882) from Serbia
* Anton Janežič (1828–1869) from Slovenia
* Alexander Potebnja (1835–1891) from Ukraine
* Vatroslav Jagić (1838–1923) from Croatia
* August Leskien (1840–1916) from Germany
* Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929) from Poland
* Filipp Fortunatov (1848–1914) from Russia
* Aleksander Brückner (1856–1939) from eastern Galicia
* Matija Murko (1861–1952) from Slovenia
* Lyubomir Miletich (1863–1937) from Bulgaria/ Macedonia
* Aleksey Shakhmatov (1864–1920) from Russia
* Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) from France]
* Holger Pedersen (linguist), Holger Pedersen (1867–1953) from Denmark
* 1869–1942) from Russia
* (1872–1954) from Slovenia
* Krste Misirkov (1874–1926) from Macedonia/Bulgaria/Russia
* Aleksandar Belić (1876–1960) from Serbia
* (1881–1967) from France
* Max Vasmer (1886–1962) from Russia
* André Vaillant (1890–1977) from France
* Dmytro Chyzhevsky (1894–1977) from Ukraine
* Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) from Russia
* (1897–1974) from Austria
* Zdzisław Stieber (1903–1980) from Poland
* Dmitry Likhachev (1906–1999) from Russia
* George Shevelov (1908–2002) from Ukraine
* Jaroslav Rudnyckyj (1910–1995) from eastern Galicia
* Stoyko Stoykov (1912–1969) from Bulgaria
* Horace G. Lunt (1918–2010) from the United States
* Karel van het Reve (1921–1999) from the Netherlands
* Blaže Koneski (1921–1993) from North Macedonia
* Juri Lotman (1922–1993) from Soviet Union/Estonia
* Henrik Birnbaum (1925–2002) from Poland/United States
* Vladislav Illich-Svitych (1934–1966) from Russia
* Thomas Schaub Noonan (1938–2001) from the United States
* Wolfgang Kasack (1927–2003) from Germany
* Isabel de Madariaga (1919–2014) from UK
* John Simon Gabriel Simmons (1915–2005) from UK
* Vladimir Dybo (1930–2023) from Russia
* Pavle Ivić (1924–1999) from Serbia
* Edward Stankiewicz (1920–2013) from Poland/United States
* Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (1923–2011) Russian-American
* Alexander M. Schenker (1924–2019) from the United States
* Zoe Hauptová (1929–2012) from the Czech Republic
* Andrey Zaliznyak (1935–2017) from Russia
* Kenneth Naylor (1937–1992) from the United States
* Zbigniew Gołąb (1923–1994) from Poland
* (1928–2006) from Poland
* Boris Uspensky (1937–2005) from Russia
* Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński (1891–1965) from Poland
* Blaže Ristovski (1931–2018) from North Macedonia
* Radoslav Katičić (1930–2019) from Croatia
* Ivan Dorovský (1935–2021) from Czech Republic
* (1939–2021) from Poland
* Šárka B. Hrbková (1878–1948) Czech-American slavologist
* Charles E. Townsend (1932–2015) from the United States
* Charles E. Gribble (1936–2016) from the United States

;Contemporary

* Irwin Weil (born 1928) from the United States
* Zuzanna Topolińska (born 1931) from Poland
* Hakan Kırımlı (born 1958) from Turkey
* Stefan Brezinski (born 1932) from Bulgaria
* (born 1937) from Germany
* Branko Mikasinovich (born 1938) from the United States
* Mario Capaldo (born 1945) from Italy
* Frederik Kortlandt (born 1946) from Netherlands
* Gary Saul Morson (born 1948) from the United States
* Victor Friedman (born 1949) from the United States
* Christina Kramer (born 1950) from the United States
* (born 1952) from the Czech Republic
* Alexander F. Tsvirkun (born 1953) from Ukraine
* Snježana Kordić (born 1964) from Croatia
* Charles S. Kraszewski (born 1962) from the United States
* Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (born 1962) from Poland and the United States
* Alexandra Popoff (born 1959) from Russia
* Catriona Kelly (born 1959) from UK
* (born 1947) from Austria

Journals and book series

* '' Archiv für slavische Philologie''
* '' Canadian Slavonic Papers'', published by the Canadian Association of Slavists
* '' The Russian Review''
* '' Sarmatian Review''
*'' Slavic and East European Journal'', published by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
* '' Slavic Review'', published by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
* '' Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics''
* '' The Slavonic and East European Review''
* Scando-Slavica
* '' Wiener Slawistischer Almanach''

Conferences

* American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
* American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
* Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

Institutes and schools

;Academic
* Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
* Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
* Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
* Institute of Slavonic Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia

;University

Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies
University of Warsaw, Poland
* Institute of Slavonic Philology, Uniwersytet Śląski, Poland

Institute of Slavonic Studies
Jagiellonian University, Poland

Institute of Slavic Philology
University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland

Institute of Slavic Studies
University of Wroclaw, Poland

Institute of Slavic Philology
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

Institute of Slavic Studies
, Lviv University, Ukraine

Department of Slavonic Philology
University of Tartu, Estonia

Department of Slavic philology
, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Department of Slavistics
University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, United Kingdom

Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Chengchi University, Taiwan

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Yale University, United States

Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of California at Berkeley, United States

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Harvard University, United States

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Stanford University, United States

Slavic Department
Barnard College, United States

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Princeton, United States

Department of Slavic Studies
Brown University, United States

Department of Slavic Languages
Columbia University, United States

Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+
University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, United States

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Washington, United States

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Virginia, United States

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Pittsburgh, United States

Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
University of Arizona, United States

Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
University of Texas at Austin, United States

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Duke University, United States

Department of Slavic Languages
Georgetown University, United States

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Southern California, United States

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Toronto, Canada

Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Victoria, Canada

Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Waterloo, Canada

Department of Slavic Studies
Le département d’études slaves), Universite Paris 8, France

Institute for Slavistics
University of Vienna, Austria

Institute for Slavistics
University of Graz, Austria
* Department of Slavic Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria

Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies
University of Delhi, India

Department of Slavic Studies
Comenius University, Slovakia

Department of Russian Language and Literature & Slavic Studies
University of Athens, Greece

Department of Slavistics
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Maribor, Slovenia

Department of Slavonic Studies
University of Olomouc, Czechia

Department of Slavonic Studies
Masaryk University, Czechia

Department of Slavonic Studies
University of Ostrava, Czechia

Department of Slavic Studies
Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski", Bulgaria

Department of Slavic Studies
Sofia University, Bulgaria

Institute of Slavic Studies
Heidelberg University, Germany

Institute of Slavic Studies
Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany

Institute of Slavic Studies
University of Kiel, Germany
* Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Mainz, Germany

Institute of Slavic Studies
University of Regensburg, Germany

Institute of Slavic Studies
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

Institute of Slavic Studies
University of Hamburg, Germany

Institute of Slavic Studies
Greifswald University, Germany

Institute of Slavic Studies
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany

Institute of Slavistics
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
* Institute of Slavistics, University of Potsdam, Germany
* Institute for Slavic Studies, Humboldt University, Germany
* Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
* Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ankara, Turkey
* Institute of Slavic Studies, Tbilisi State University, Georgia

Department of Russian and Slavic Philology
Departamentul de Filologie Rusă şi Slavă), Romania

Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Pécs, Hungary
* Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Institute of Slavic Philology
University of Szeged, Hungary

Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies
Ohio State University, United States

Slavic Department
University of Chicago, United States
*Núcleo de Estudos em Eslavística, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Núcleo de Estudos Eslavos
Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Brazil

;Others
* Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

Ghent Centre for Slavic and East European Studies
Ghent, Belgium

Organisations

* American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
* Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
* American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR)
* North American Association of Teachers of Polish (NAATPl)

See also

* Balkan studies
* Indo-European studies
* Byzantine studies
* List of linguists
* Outline of Slavic history and culture

References

Sources

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External links

Canadian Association of Slavists




* ttps://www.aseees.org Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies(ASEEES)

Slavistik-Portal
The Slavistics Portal (Germany)
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Association of Slavists POLYSLAV

Slavic Linguistics Society

Library guides

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* ttp://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/slavic/ Slavic Studies Guide (Duke)

Slavic Studies: A Research Guide (Harvard)



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Slavic Studies Guide (NYU)

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University College London, School of Slavonic & East European Studies

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