2013 Slavic Applicants

[vosemdesyatvosem]

So.... Anyone else here working on their applications for Russian or Slavic programs?

[vosemdesyatvosem]

Wow, what a great discussion we're having!

 

I was just accepted to Yale this week, so I've been more or less drunk for the past few days.

[smulloy21]

Congrats 88!! 

 

I've also applied to Slavic programs this year. I haven't jumped into this thread, honestly because I've been superstitious about talking about where I've applied to - I won't even tell extended family, to their frustration.

 

Congratulations on your acceptance to Yale! What is your area of focus?

[vosemdesyatvosem]

Yeah, I guess I understand that impulse.

 

I'm interested in 19th century fiction and especially the challenges that the Russian empire poses to postcolonial theory--basically, I think the russian empire destabilizes a lot of the assumptions implicit in concepts like the other and orientalism, so I want to develop a new critical vocabulary to treat rigorously a unique cultural situation.

[ExponentialDecay]

Yeah, I guess I understand that impulse.

 

I'm interested in 19th century fiction and especially the challenges that the Russian empire poses to postcolonial theory--basically, I think the russian empire destabilizes a lot of the assumptions implicit in concepts like the other and orientalism, so I want to develop a new critical vocabulary to treat rigorously a unique cultural situation.

 

or you could just translate chaadaev.