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
Selected Publications
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Joost van Baak. The House in Russian Literature: A Mythopoetic Exploration. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 610-611, vol. 51(4).2009.
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Young Pushkin: A Novel. The Modern Language Review, 1205-1206, vol. 104(4).2009.
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Sang Hyun Kim, Aleksandr Pushkin's The Tales of Belkin: Formalist and Structuralist Readings and Beyond the Literary Theories. The Russian Review, 516-517, vol. 68(3). doi>2009.
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'Foreword'. In How Dostoevsky portrays women in his novels. Briggs KJ (Ed.). Edwin Mellen Pr.2009.
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Aleksei Uchitel’: The Captive (Plennyi, 2008). KinoKultura, vol. 24.2009.
Full Publications Listshow
Books
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Turgenev and Russian culture. Rodopi Bv Editions.2008.
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Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction: 1846-1903. Rodopi.2007.
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Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). 2006. Chekhov 2004: Volume 2: Chekhov and Others. (vol. 11). Essays in Poetics.
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Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). 2005. Chekhov 2004: Volume 1: Aspects of Chekhov. (vol. 10). Essays in Poetics.
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Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). 2004. Gogol 2002. Volume 2: Aspects of Gogol. Essays in Poetics, Staffordshire.
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Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). 2003. Gogol 2002. Volume 1: Gogol and Others. Essays in Poetics, Staffordshire.
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Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). 2003. Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. Volume 3: Pushkin's Legacy. Rodopi, Amsterdam - New York.
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Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). 2003. Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. Volume 1: 'Pushkin's Secret': Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin. Rodopi, Amsterdam - New York.
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Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). 2003. Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. Volume 2: Alexander Pushkin: Myth and Monument. Rodopi, Amsterdam - New York.
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Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. Volume 2: Alexander Pushkin: Myth and Monument. Rodopi.2003.
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Essays in Poetics: The Journal of the British Neo formalist Circle. (vol. 27).2002.
Journal Articles
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Joost van Baak. The House in Russian Literature: A Mythopoetic Exploration. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 610-611, vol. 51(4).2009.
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Young Pushkin: A Novel. The Modern Language Review, 1205-1206, vol. 104(4).2009.
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Sang Hyun Kim, Aleksandr Pushkin's The Tales of Belkin: Formalist and Structuralist Readings and Beyond the Literary Theories. The Russian Review, 516-517, vol. 68(3). doi>2009.
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Aleksei Uchitel’: The Captive (Plennyi, 2008). KinoKultura, vol. 24.2009.
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University Theses in Russian, Soviet and East European Studies 1907-2006: A Centennial Bibliography of Research in the British Isles. The Modern Language Review, 302-304, vol. 104(1).2009.
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Writing as Exorcism: The Personal Codes of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol. The Slavonic and East European Review, 136-137, vol. 86(1).2008.
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'Birth Equals Rebirth? Space, Narrative, and Gender in The Commissar'. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 27-44, vol. 1(1). doi>2007.
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Dimitry's Shade: A Reading of Alexander Pushkin's 'Boris Godunv'. Modern Language Review, 294-295, vol. 102(1).2007.
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Russkii Formalizm. Metodolgicheskaia rekonstruktsia razvitiia na osnove printsipa ostraeniia. Slavic and East European Journal, 517-518, vol. 50(3).2006.
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Women and Gender in 18th-Century Russia. The Slavonic and East European Review, 762-763, vol. 84(4).2006.
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"Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina'". Modern Language Review, 304-305, vol. 101(1).2006.
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"Finding the Middle Ground. Krestovskii, Tur, and the Power of Ambivalence in Nineteenth Century Russian Women's Prose" by Jehanne M. Gheith. Slavic Review, 210-211, vol. 65(1).2006.
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"Discipline and punish": the body as a site for Stalinism in Burnt by the Sun (Utomlennye solntsem). In Body, Spirit, Soul in Russian Culture and Literature, 351-372, vol. 54.2005.
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"Pushkin and The Genres of Madness. The Masterpieces of 1833" by Gary Rosensheild. Slavonic and East European Review, 733-734, vol. 83(4).2005.
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'Discipline and Punish': The Body as a Site for Stalinism in Burnt by the Sun (Utomlennye solntsem). Blok, The International Journal of Stalinism and Post-Stalinist Culture, 90-115, vol. 3.2004.
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A History of Women's Writing in Russia in Slavonic and East European Review. 322-324, vol. 82(2).2004.
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Gogol: Exploring Absence, Negativity in 19th Century Russian Literature in Slavonic and East European Review. 944-945, vol. 82(4).2004.
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The Epistolary Novel in Eighteenth-Century Russia in Slavonic and East European Review. 941-942, vol. 82(4).2004.
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'"Pesni nužny nam: nikto ne vidit konca vojne": A Structural Analysis of Isaak Babel's "The Song"'. Russian Literature , 9-23, vol. 54(1-3). doi>2003.
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David Herman: Poverty of the Imagination: Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature about the Poor. Modern Language Review, 801-802, vol. 98(3).2003.
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Julian Graffy: Gogol's 'The Overcoat'. Slavonic and East European Review, 114-115, vol. 80(1).2002.
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Neil Cornwell (ed): The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature. The Modern Language Review, 247-248, vol. 97(1).2002.
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Same Time, Same Place: Some Reflections on the Chronotope and Gender in Dostoevsky's White Nights'. New Zealand Slavonic Journal.2002.
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Wendy Rosslyn: 'Feats of Agreeable Usefulness: Translations by Russian Women, 1763-1825. Slavonica, 214-215, vol. 8(2).2002.
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Aileen M. Kelly: Views From The Other Shore. Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. Slavonic and East European Review, 321-322, vol. 79(2).2001.
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Elspeth Reid (ED.) 'Edinburgh Essays on Russia. Celebrating 50 years of Russian Studies'. Slavonica, 113-114, vol. 7(2).2001.
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Svetlana Grenier: 'Representing the Marginal Woman in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature'. The Russian Review, 642, vol. 60(4).2001.
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Vladimir Golstein: Lermontov's Narratives of Heroism. Slavonic and East European Review, 316-318, vol. 79(2).2001.
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Chapters
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'Foreword'. In How Dostoevsky portrays women in his novels. Briggs KJ (Ed.). Edwin Mellen Pr.2009.
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Death and the Maiden: Narrative, Space, Gender and Identity in Asia. In Turgenev and Russian culture. Andrew J, Offord D, Reid R (Eds.). Rodopi Bv Editions.2008.
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Introduction: Turgenev and Russian Culture. In Turgenev and Russian culture. Andrew J, Offord D, Reid R (Eds.). Rodopi Bv Editions.2008.
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"Silent Witness": A Study of Male and Female Identity in Krotkaja. In Literature and beyond. Haard ED, Stelleman J, Honselaar W, Weststeijn WG (Eds.). Amsterdam : Pegasus, 2008..2008.
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Preface. In Chekhov 2004: Volume 2: Chekhov and Others. Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). Essays in Poetics.2006.
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'"I love you dear captive": gender and narrative in versions of The Prisoner of the Caucasus'. In Russian and Soviet Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001. Hutchings S and Vernitski A (Eds.). RoutledgeCurzon.2005.
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Preface. In Chekhov 2004: Volume 1: Aspects of Chekhov. Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.).2005.
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'Metaliterary Aspects of Mar'ia Zuhokova's Evenings by the Karpovka. In Lotmanovskii sbornik. Kiesleva LN, Leibov RG, Fraiman TN (Eds.). OGI, Moscow.2004.
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'Preface' in Gogol 2002. Volume 2: Aspects of Gogol. In Essays in Poetics Publications, Volume 9, 2004. Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). Essays in Poetics, Staffordshire.2004.
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"A vak latni fog": narracio es nemi szerep a Tamanyban. In Ujragondolni a Roamntikat. Hansag A and Hermann Z (Eds.). Kijarat.2003.
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'Introduction: Pushkin's Legacy' in Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. Volume 3: Pushkin's Legacy. In Volume 3: Pushkin's Legacy. Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). Rodopi, Amsterdam - New York.2003.
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'Introduction: Pushkin's Secret'. In Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. Volume 1: 'Pushkin's Secret': Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin. Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). Rodopi, Amsterdam - New York.2003.
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'Preface' in Gogol 2002. Volume 1: Gogol and Others. In Essays in Poetics Publications. Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). Essays in Poetics, Staffordshire.2003.
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[She] was brought up on French novels and, consequently, was in love: Russian Writers Reading and Writing Pushkin. In Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. Volume 1: 'Pushkin's Secret': Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin. Andrew J and Reid R (Eds.). Rodopi, Amsterdam - New York.2003.
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'Telling Tales. Zhukova as a Metaliterary Author'. In Vieldeutiges Nicht-Zu-Ende-Sprechen Thesen Und Momentaufnahmen Aus Der Geschichte Russischer Dichterinnen . Rosenholm A and Gopfert F (Eds.). Gopfert.2002.
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Introduction. In Anton Chekhov: Selected Stories. Wordsworth Classics, Ware, Hertfordshire.2002.
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'A Crocodile in Flannel or a Dancing Monkey': The Image of Russian Women Writers, 1790-1850. In Gender in Russian History and Culture. Edmondson L (Ed.). Palgrave, Houndmills.2001.