Russian Literature and Culture between East and West
Director of the Program: Prof. Dr. Zsuzsa Hetényi
The program "Russian Literature and Culture between East and West" was accredited in 1993, its founders were Léna Szilárd, Zsuzsa Zöldhelyi, and Zsuzsa Hetényi.
The educational and research plan on which the program is based aims to represent the history of Russian literature and culture in the late 19- 20th and 21st centuries in the context of structural changes and trans-generational patterns, as well as in the light of links and interactions between Western and Eastern Europe. This process is reflected in the credit- and course structure of the program. Students can choose from a range of courses depending on their dissertation topic and research profile. The program’s teaching and research agenda span the period from Russian millenary culture to the postmodern period (from the 1880s up to our days). Other fields of science include the history of Hungarian-Russian cultural reception, the question of intermediality, and the relationship between literature and arts (especially visual arts). From the beginning, one of the main strands of the curriculum is based on the literary comparison, also on the history of cultural reception, and intercultural studies in the broader sense (borderline phenomena, dual-identity in Eastern and Central European literature: Russian-Jewish literature; Ukrainian literature). During the 30 years of the doctoral program, nearly 100 doctoral students have enrolled. The program has regularly hosted excellent foreign scholars and established academic links with universities and academic institutions in several foreign cities (Belgrade, Brno, Graz, Geneva, Leeds, Moscow, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Zagreb, etc. and organized several international conferences and symposia in Budapest. The Ph.D. program’s own book series is Dolce Filologia which has already published 18 volumes.