Professor Robert Russell

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Robert Russell is Professor of Russian in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield. He was principal investigator and co-director (with Dr Carol Adlam) of the AHRB-funded Russian Visual Arts project on which Russian Art Criticism: Development and Contexts, 1814-1909 is based.

Russell's research interests lie in Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially twentieth-century Russian prose and drama. Publications include the monographs Valentin Kataev (G.K. Hall, 1981) and Russian Drama of the Revolutionary Period (Macmillan, 1988); the collection of essays Russian Theatre in the Age of Modernism (Macmillan, 1990, edited jointly with Andrew Barratt); editions of works by Maiakovskii and Trifonov; and articles on many aspects of Russian twentieth-century prose and drama. Recent work includes the chapter 'The Modernist Tradition' in The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Russell is currently working on Evgenii Zamiatin, on certain aspects of contemporary Russian drama, and on a further study of Valentin Kataev. He is also co-supervisor of the postgraduate student attached to the project.

E-mail: robert.russell@sheffield.ac.uk
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