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Dr Avril Pyman FBA

Russian, Slavonic and Eastern European Languages and Literatures English Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1996
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830

Current post

Reader Emeritus in Russian, University of Durham

Past appointments

University of Durham Reader Emeritus in Russian, University of Durham

1979 -

University of Durham Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in Russian

1978 - 1996

Publications

The life of Aleksandr Blok (2 vols) 1979-1980

Aleksandr Blok: the Twelve 1989

A history of Russian symbolism 1994

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Charles Forsdick FBA

Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction

Charles Forsdick FBA

Professor Peter Brooks FBA

Comparative literature, mainly French & English; Stendhal, Balzac, Henry James; the novel and its analysis; psychoanalysis and literary study; law and literature; identity in modern culture

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Professor Zhenzhao Nie FBA

Ethical Literary Criticism; Poetry and Poetics; Translation

Zhenzhao Nie FBA

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