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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 Kirsty Hooper FBA

Kirsty Hooper's research interests are Spanish, Anglo-Spanish, and Galician cultural history since 1800; the global nineteenth century; minority languages and cultures; genealogies; and the histories and legacies of Hispanic communities in the United Kingdom, especially London and Liverpool.

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Professor Zhenzhao Nie FBA

Ethical Literary Criticism; Poetry and Poetics; Translation

Zhenzhao Nie FBA

Professor John Barrell FBA

English Language and Literature History of a specific country Britain in the 18th & 19th C. History of Art Theory of Painting Cultural Geography

Photo of John Barrell FBA, holding his hat with a blue sky with light clouds behind him, indicating the location of the photo is at high altitude.

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