Postgraduate research in Russian and East European Studies

Our postgraduate research students benefit from supervision across a range of fields, covering a broad range of research specialisms in Russian and East European Studies.

Our team's research interests include:

• Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and intellectual history
• Soviet and post-Soviet cinema and the media
• Russian and Soviet popular culture
• Gender studies
• Nationalism and ethnic politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
• Medieval Slavic cultures;
• Balkan Studies

See our Russian and East European Studies staff list

Here's what some of our current students are researching:

• Simona Amariutei - 'Andrei Bely and Kazimir Malevich: Russian Modernism and the Hidden Revolution'
• Thomas Drew - 'Homo Liber: Nonconformism and Artistic Self-Expression in 1980s Siberia'
• Baatar Khasanov - 'The Concept of 'Emptiness' and the Politics of Identity among the Turko-Mongolian Peoples in the Russian Empire, 1830s-1917'
• Maksim Markelov - 'Transforming Meaning?: Russian Trolls in Social Media's Changing Linguistic Landscape'
• Yevhenii Poliakov - 'Russians in Soviet Lviv: Changing Representations of Dominant Minority'
• Sorcha Scarff - 'Can a Revival of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Increased Autonomy for Indigenous Populations in Siberia Enable a Participatory Approach to Climate Action'
• Viktoriia Svyrydenko - 'Narrating the Imperial Past: Public Space and the Politics of Memory in Post-Soviet Ukraine'
• Rui Wang - 'Translation and Soft Power: A Case Study of Russian Cultural Diplomacy towards China'
• Laura Wilson - 'How Does Contemporary Russian Prose Fiction Contribute to Debates About Russian National Identity?'