The Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies has two Special Professors as well as three Emeritus Professors and a Visiting Scholar attached to it. All six are distinguished scholars who contribute to the departmental research activity through residential visits, annual lectures, participation in seminars and workshops, support of special events and by helping to supervise postgraduates.
Professor Bartlett, Emeritus Professor of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College, London is a specialist in Russian and Baltic history, particularly of the 18th Century.
Selected Publications
A History of Russia (Palgrave, 2005).
Images: Catherine II of Russia, Enlightened Absolutism and Mikhail Gorbachev (1991).
Professor Slezkine is a Professor of Russian History at Berkeley. He is currently working on a project on the ‘House on the Embankment’ in Moscow.
Selected Publications
The Jewish Century (Princeton UP, 2004).
In the Shadow of the Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War, ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick and Yuri Slezkine (Princeton UP, 2000).
Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (Cornell UP, 1994).
Emeritus Professors
Emeritus Professor Peter Herrity
Contact Details: via the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Professor Herrity is a specialist in comparative Slavonic philology with particular reference to the development of the Slavonic literary languages. His research has been mainly in the area of the South Slavonic languages especially Serbian, Croatian and Slovene and he has published many articles and books on these subjects. He is currently working on the development of the Slovene Standard language for the major volume Slavische Sprachen (to be published by Mouton). He has served twice on the HEFCE Research Assessment Exercise sub-panel for Russian, Slavonic and East European Studies.
Selected Publications
Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge, 2000).
Jezicka razmatranja (Belgrade: Matica srpska, 1999).
Emeritus Professor Malcolm V. Jones
Contact Details: malcolmvjones@btinternet.com
Professor Jones’s research has focussed principally on Russian imaginative prose and intellectual history, in relationship with the European cultural tradition. He is a former President of the International Dostoevsky Society, of which he was a founding member in 1971, and through which he is able to keep in touch with other Dostoevsky scholars in Russia and around the world. He has recently published a history of the Department or Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Selected Publications
Slavianskii Mir: The Story of Slavonic Studies at The University of Nottingham in the Twentieth Century (Bramcote Press, 2009).
Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious Experience (Anthem Press, 2005).
Dostoyevsky after Bakhtin (CUP, 1990) [translated into Russian as: Dostoevsky posle Bakhtina (Akademicheskii proekt, 1998)].
Emeritus Professor Wendy Rosslyn
Contact Details: wendy.rosslyn@nottingham.ac.uk.
Professor Rosslyn’s research topics are Russian poetry, Russian women's writing, and the culture of Russian women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including philanthropic activity and translation. She is currently writing on women's autobiographies from the early nineteenth century. She has supervised postgraduate students working on Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, and women's autobiographical writing in French.
Selected Publications
Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825, ed. Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra Tossi (Palgrave, 2007).
Deeds not Words: The Origins of Female Philanthropy in the Russian Empire (Birmingham Slavonic Monographs, 2007).
Women and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Russia, ed. Wendy Rosslyn (Ashgate, 2003).
Visiting Scholars
Dr Stijn Vervaet (Ghent University)
Contact Details: stijn.vervaet@ugent.be
Dr Vervaet's current research focuses on representations of the past and the construction of cultural memory in Serbian, Bosnian, and Croatian prose from the 1990s onwards. Looking at a number of case studies, Dr Vervaet analyses the narrative strategies of the representation of history and explores the way in which literature shapes, transforms, reflects, and circulates individual and collective memory.
Selected publications
'Writing War, Writing Memory: The Representation of the Recent Past and the Construction of Cultural Memory in Contemporary Bosnian Prose', Neohelicon [forthcoming].
'"Naš car ima za svašta zakon": Kolonijalna modernost i nacionalni identitet u bosanskohercegovačkoj književnosti austrougarskog razdoblja', Slavistična revija, 57/3 (2009), pp. 467-481.
'"Na granicama civilizovane Evrope": Austrougarska tekstualna kolonizacija Bosne i Hercegovine (1878-1918)', Sveske Zadužbine Ive Andrića, 24 (2007), pp. 90-126.