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Department of
Russian and Slavonic Studies
   
   
  

Research Interests

 

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  

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Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies

University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 5824
fax: +44 (0) 115 951 5812
email: slavonic-studies-enquiries@nottingham.ac.uk