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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 Juliet Mitchell FBA

Psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary research into gender/sexual difference and sibling/social group relationships using literature to analyse the horizontal axis missing from social theory

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Professor Neil Lazarus FBA

Postcolonial literary studies; modernisation, modernity, modernism; critical social theory, sociology of literature; the questions of 'world literature' and comparative literary studies; more broadly, modern literature (1850 to the present)

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Professor Stefan Collini FBA

Intellectual history and literary criticism

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