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.
If you are a Russian reader of Dickens and would like to participate in my research project, please visit this website: http://russiandickens.wordpress.com/.
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
Turning into Sterne. Viktor Shklovskii and Literary Reception.
Finer, E.
2010
Oxford:
Legenda
.
172 p.
(Studies in Comparative Literature).
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
Dickens in Russia: The Soviet Period
Finer, E.
14-Mar-2013
In:
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe.
Continuum
, (Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, The).
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
‘A rift on the left front?’: Lef (1923-5) and Na postu (1923-5)
Finer, E.
2012
In:
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe 1880-1940.
Brooker, P., Thacker, A., Bru, S. & Weikop, C. (eds.).
Oxford University Press
,
Vol. 3
, (The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines).
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Russian Modernism
Finer, E.
Dec-2010
In:
The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms.
Gasiorek, A., Brooker, P. & Longworth, D. (eds.). Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter