Course summary

The Department of Russian has an outstanding record of research. We pride ourselves on our strong, active research culture, and the research interests of staff span a broad range of disciplinary emphases. We can support postgraduate research in many areas within the following broad fields:

• Russian and Russophone literature from the 18th century to the present;

• Russian intellectual history from the 19th century to the 20th century;

• Russian and Soviet film and visual culture;

• Soviet history;

• Stalinist culture and the Stalin cult;

• British-Soviet wartime relations (1941-45);

• Literary and cultural theory;

• Issues of cultural identity (semiotics of space, perceptions of time and of modernity);

• Transnational and decolonial approaches;

• Urban studies;

• Russian Orthodox theology and culture;

• Gender and sexuality in Russian literature and culture;

• Translation studies;

• Media studies;

• Medicine and the body in literature and visual culture;

• Late-19th and early-20th-century Czech literature and visual culture.

• The history of Soviet translation theory;

• Translatorial visibility and agency in the post-editing process through the lens of feminist translation studies;

• Contested feminisms in Soviet, Post-Soviet and contemporary Russian translations of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath, 1976-2010;

• The corporeality of mourning in post-Soviet women's prose;

• Blood and the body in the Bolshevik utopian project.