Biography

I have worked at Keele since my first appointment as Lecturer in Russian in 1972. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1989, and to Reader in 1993. I was awarded a personal chair in January 1995.

Research and scholarship

My research concentrates on nineteenth-century Russian literature and I have an international reputation as a leading specialist in issues of gender in Russian literature. Recently, I have also moved into cinema research, and have already published three refereed articles in this field.

Current Projects

Robert Reid and I are currently editing for publication two volumes of papers from the 2006 conference on Turgenev: ‘Turgenev and His Contemporaries’. I am also currently engaged on a collaborative volume on women in nineteenth-century Russian literature with American and Finnish specialists.

Supervisory Expertise

  • Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russian Culture
  • Gender and Russian Culture

Teaching

  • European Cinema
  • Politics and Cinema
  • Whither Russia?
  • Sources and Debates
  • Psychological Realism in Russian Literature
  • British Cinema
  • Special Study in MCC

Publications

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Head of School
Dr Nick Seager
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School and college outreach
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