Find a research supervisor in Russian studies

Staff in the Department of Modern Languages who supervise PhD/MA by Research in the area of Russian studies.

Dr Isobel Palmer

Lecturer in Russian

• Russian poetry (19th-21st Century)
• Russian Formalism and literary theory
• Comparative modernisms
• (Modernist) performance culture  
• Thaw culture
• Urban humanities
• Intersections between literature and new media

Dr Natalia (Natasha) Rulyova

Associate Professor in Russian

•  20th Century Russian poetry (Joseph Brodsky's poetry and auto-translations)
• Genre and translation
• Translation, self-translation and collaborative translation with a specific focus on English to Russian, and Russian to English
• Translation of hybrid texts to majority languages with a focus on the translation of Russophone literature into English

Modern languages staff research supervision areas

• Arabic studies
• Colonial and postcolonial studies
• Digital humanities in modern languages
• Exile and migration
• French studies
• German studies
• Hispanic studies
• Italian studies
• Linguistics
• Medieval studies
• Memory studies
• Music
• Nineteenth century studies
• Modern languages (audio-visual)
• Russian studies
• Sexuality and gender studies
• Translation studies