Russian (Research)

Research areas include: Russian film, issues of cultural identity, and literary history, broadly conceived. Research areas of interest include: 18th, 19th and 20th Century Russian literature (in particular Karamzin, Zhukovskii, Gogol, Tolstoi, Chekhov, Zoshchenko, travel literature, non-fiction literature); Soviet cinema (especially documentary, Dziga Vertov and wartime cinema); landscape design in Russia; modernity and its ruins; the Russian intelligentsia and the elite in their relation to power; Russian folklore; Polish literature.