Dr Roger Keys, Lecturer
Contact Details
rjk1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 462952
Office: Quad 43
Research and Teaching
My research focuses principally on analysis of the "experimental" fictional techniques developed by writers belonging to the Russian Symbolist movement in the early decades of the twentieth century. My main long-term research plan is to develop further the typological classification of Russian modernist fiction begun in my book, The Reluctant Modernist: Andrei Belyi and the Development of Russian Fiction, 1902-1914 (Clarendon Press, 1996). To this end I am examining the relationship between narrator and character discourse in the longer fiction of two major Russian Symbolist writers, Fedor Sologub (1863-1927) and Aleksei Remizov (1877-1957). I am also preparing articles on the Russian-American Imagist poet, prose-writer and translator, John Cournos (1862-1927), an important intermediary figure between the Russian and western literary traditions. I teach courses in Russian and Soviet literature of the twentieth century, as well as translation from and into Russian, at all levels of the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.