We have a wide spread of multi-disciplinary expertise in Russian and South and East-European culture, literature and history.  

 Dr Siggy Frank

• Modern Russian literature and culture
• The culture and literature of the first wave emigration, including Russian theatres abroad and Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction
• Modern Russian theatre and drama
• Theories of authorship, narrative theory 
• The interaction between different art forms 

Dr Rolf Hellebust

• 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature and culture, literary theory and comparative literature
• Soviet revolutionary culture
• 19th-century Russian literary tradition
• Modernism and postmodernism in Russia and the West 

Dr Polly McMichael

• Russian and Soviet cultural studies
• Soviet popular music 

Dr David Norris

• Literatures of former Yugoslavia and successor states
• Serbian literary and cultural studies 20th and 21st centuries
• Representations of war in fictional narratives
• The city in literature and film
• Historical novel  

Dr Monica White

• Cultural, religious and military history of Kievan Rus and Byzantium
• Cults of saints
• Dragon-slaying miracles 

Dr Vladimir Zorič

• Rhetoric of exile and diaspora
• Myth and literature
• Modern Serbian literature
• Discourse analysis  

More information on Academic staff and their research can be viewed here.