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Cambridge Slavonic Studies Courses

The Slavonic Studies Section at the University of Cambridge is dedicated to teaching the languages of Poland, Russia and Ukraine to a high degree of written and oral excellence. We also seek to promote an interdisciplinary course of study in which our undergraduate and postgraduate students acquire a wide range of knowledge in literature, history, culture, and philology. Our courses of study are rigorous and intensive. We take pride in engaging our students in vigorous debate and discussion by way of a curriculum combining organised lectures and seminars with small group teaching.

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What would it take to fake a sonnet by the French Renaissance poet Louise Labé?

2 July 2025

Timothy Chesters weighs in on the controversy over the authorship of the Oeuvres de Louise Labé Lyonnaise (1555). 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 as a joke. Since then...

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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