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 Derek Attridge FBA

The language of literature and literary theory: Renaissance prosodic experiments, English poetic rhythm, James Joyce and J. M. Coetzee, philosophical approaches to literature.

Professor Dame Marina Warner FBA

History; historical studies of language and literature; English language and literature

French literature and culture from the later nineteenth century to the present; modernism(s) and the avant-garde; textual/visual studies; modern French poetry, especially Apollinaire; Zola and Naturalism studies; comparative epistolarity studies