MA (Hons) Russian Studies and English Literature in Edinburgh United Kingdom | The University of Edinburgh

For generations, Russian-speaking communities have exerted significant global influence on literature, paralleling English-speaking cultures.
This combined degree program enhances your analytical, critical, linguistic, and creative abilities through exposure to diverse texts in both English and Russian, employing multiple interpretive approaches.
Through rigorous language training, you'll cultivate advanced Russian proficiency in speaking, writing, reading, listening, and translation. Our first-year courses accommodate all skill levels, welcoming complete beginners.
Russian serves as the primary language for approximately 150 million people worldwide, holding official status in four nations and remaining widely comprehensible across Eastern Europe. Recent decades have witnessed extraordinary global migration of Russian speakers, with substantial communities now established in China, Central Asia, the United States, and Western Europe.

This four-year program combines language acquisition with the study of Russian literature and culture within global political and historical frameworks. You may specialize in 19th or 20th century Russian literature, adopt comparative perspectives, or blend literary studies with cultural and sociolinguistic explorations.