Fall 2026

Foundation in Soviet, Emigre, and Post-soviet Literature (~1930-present)

SLAVIC 709 is a graduate course covering Soviet, Emigre, and Post-Soviet Russian literature from 1917 to the present.

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Historical reviews of Irina Shevelenko: The reviewer claims the course requires no reading and offers little feedback, though they found tag selection difficult.

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SLAVIC 709

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Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical reviews for Irina Shevelenko describe her as a terrible lecturer with useless lectures and no classroom discussions. The reviewer found the experience boring and advised avoiding the course, noting a lack of feedback despite the instructor's respect for her books.

IRINA SHEVELENKO is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Fall 2018, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

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Historical reviews of Irina Shevelenko: A reviewer describes Irina Shevelenko's lectures as useless and boring, advising students to avoid the course.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 3.70 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades); Fall 2021: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Irina Shevelenko: The reviewer claims the course requires no reading and offers little feedback, though they found tag selection difficult.

Historical reviews of Irina Shevelenko: The student reports that classroom discussions never occurred and the instructor was not inspirational.

Topics

  • Realism, socialist realism, exile, dissidence, and postmodernism

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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