Literary, performance and visual cultures
Prof Evgeny Dobrenko, Professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
Prof Dobrenko’s research lie in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, Socialist Realism, Russian and Soviet film, critical theory and Soviet cultural history. He is currently writing a book on cultural history of late Stalinism and editing a History of Soviet Literary Theory and Criticism.
Prof Malcolm Jones, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Professor Jones’s research has concentrated on Russian imaginative prose and intellectual history. His new book on Dostoeysky and the dynamics of religious experience is coming out in 2005. He is working with Prof Peter Herrity on a literary biography of Janko Lavrin. In addition he has been invited to contribute a chapter to a book called New Essays on Russian Thought.
Dr Nicholas Luker, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Dr Luker is the author of books on the 20th-century Russian writers Aleksandr Grin and Kuprin, and also the translator and editor of a collection of early 20th-century prose. He is co-translator of anthologies of stories by Grin and Miloslavskii. Dr Luker has published in Britain, Russia, the United States and New Zealand, including articles on early 20th-century literary movements, on the writer Mikhail Artsybashev, translations of 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature, and bibliographies of Russian prose writers.
Dr Cynthia Marsh, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Dr Marsh's research is focused on Russian theatre, particularly in performance. She has recently completed a study of Maxim Gorky's plays. Dr Marsh is currently writing a book on Russian theatre in the British repertoire, to which issues of translation and interculturalism are central. She has just completed a project to direct Chekhov's The Seagull, as a practical exploration of these issues.
Prof. Lesley Milne, Professor in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
The current focus of Prof Milne’s research is Russian pre-Soviet satiric press (magazines and journals such as Satiricon) as well as comic prose of the Soviet period, notably the works of Il'f and Petrov, Bulgakov and Zoshchenko in the 1920s and 1930s, and Voinovich, Iskander and Venedikt Erofeev in the 1960s-1980s
Dr David Norris, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Dr Norris's research interests include modern Serbian cultural studies; the relationship of literature to culture and ideology in small nations; Serbian and Croatian literature; literary and cultural theory and methodological issues in literary history. He writes about the evolution of a specific Balkan semiotics in the Western imagination and cultural developments which have helped to shape Balkan identities and histories. His current work concerns dominant patterns of representation in Serbian literature and film during the civil wars of the 1990s in the region.
Prof. Wendy Rosslyn, Professor in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Prof Rosslyn’s research interests are in women's writing, particularly in the 18th and early 19th centuries.