Established in Spring 1999, the Paul Debreczeny Prize will be awarded each spring to a graduating senior whose work in our areas of study has been judged outstanding. This prize honors one of the founding faculty members of UNC's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: Paul Debreczeny, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, emeritus.



Every spring the Department hosts a talent night or "Spektakl'," in which our students give a wide variety of individual and group performances -- skits, songs, puppet shows, plays, poetry readings -- in the languages they are learning in our program. A showcase for language skills, highly improvised costumes, and general zaniness, the Spektakl' has earned a local reputation as an entertainment extravaganza.