University of St Andrews

School of Modern Languages

Dr Emily Finer, Lecturer

Contact Details

ef50@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463648
Office: Quad 34

Research and Teaching

My research focuses on comparative literature and literary reception. My current project investigates the Russian and Soviet reception of the novels of Charles Dickens in the twentieth century. I ask why Dickens was canonised for the mass reader and how his novels were translated, re-written, theorised and imitated. This research follows my monograph on the twisty relationship between the Russian Formalist, Viktor Shklovsky and the author of Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne.

My teaching reflects my various interests in Russian literature and theory, comparative literature and translation. I teach several Honours modules in Russian: RU3021, ‘Russian Poetry of the Golden Age’; RU3024, ‘A Special Russian Author of the Nineteenth Century: Pushkin’ and RU3022, ‘The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel’. I enjoy teaching translation and working with students on the literature component of second-year Russian modules. I also teach sessions on Russian Formalism for graduate students taking ML5001, ‘The Theory and Practice of Literary Research’.

Publications

Finer, E 2013, ' Dickens in Russia: The Soviet Period ', The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, The, Continuum.

Finer, E 2012, ' ‘A rift on the left front?’: Lef (1923-5) and Na postu (1923-5) ', in P Brooker, A Thacker, S Bru & C Weikop (eds) , The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe 1880-1940 vol. 3, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, vol. 3, Oxford University Press.

Finer, E 2010, ' Russian Modernism ', in A Gasiorek, P Brooker & D Longworth (eds) , The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms Oxford University Press, Oxford.