Dr Claire Whitehead, Senior Lecturer
Contact Details
cew12@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 462951
Office: Quad 44
Research and Teaching
Dr Whitehead's research interests focus on prose fiction in Russia and France from the nineteenth century onwards. Having published her first monograph on the fantastic short story with Legenda in 2006, she is currently researching a book-length study of detective fiction in Russia from the 1860s to the present day. Authors of interest in this genre include, amongst many others, Sokolovskii, Stepanov, Timofeev, Dostoevskii, Panov, Shkliarevskii, Chekhov, Geintse, Shaginian, Semenov and Akunin. In her work she combines close textual analysis with the application of critical theory, particularly narratology, and a consideration of socio-historical factors. She has recently completed an article on 'Debating Detectives: The Influence of publitsistika on nineteenth-century Russian crime fiction' which will appear in Modern Language Review in January 2012. She is currently preparing one article on Marietta Shaginian's 1923 novel Mess-Mend or Yankees in Petrograd and another on Boris Akunin's recent 'Sister Pelagia' trilogy of novels. Dr Whitehead teaches all components of Russian language as well as Honours and postgraduate modules on the fantastic, crime fiction, nineteenth-century Russian prose and critical theory. She would welcome enquiries from postgraduate students on all aspects of nineteenth-century Russian literature as well as comparative literature.
PhD Supervision
Publications
Readings in Twenty-First-Century Literatures
Gratzke, M. (ed.)
,
Whitehead, C. E. (ed.)
&
Hutton, M. A. (ed.)
2013
To be determined
.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
Critical Insights: The Fantastic
Whitehead, C. E.
12-Oct-2012
Massachussets:
Salem Press
.
300 p.
(Critical Insights).
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
The Fantastic in France and Russia in the Nineteenth Century: In Pursuit of Hesitation
Whitehead, C. E.
2006
Legenda
.
170 p.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
Ivan Turgenev's
Phantoms
: The Spectre of Hesitation
Whitehead, C. E.
2008
In:
Turgenev and Russian Culture: Essays to Honour Richard Peace.
Andrew, J., Offord, D. & Reid, R. (eds.).
Rodopi
,
p. 347-362.
(Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics).
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
The Fantastic in Russian Romantic Prose: Pushkin's
Queen of Spades
Whitehead, C. E.
1999
In:
The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Cornwell, N. (ed.).
p. 103-126.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Odoevskii's
Pestrye skazki
Whitehead, C. E.
1998
In:
Reference Guide to Russian Literature, London: Fitzroy Dearborn.
Cornwell, N. (ed.).
p. 589-590.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Debating Detectives: the influence of
publitsistika
on nineteenth-century Russian crime fiction.
Whitehead, C. E.
1-Jan-2012
In :
Modern Language Review
.
107
,
1
,
p. 230-258.
29 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
The Letter of the Law: Literacy and Orality in S. A. Panov's Murder in
Medveditsa Village
Whitehead, C. E.
Jan-2011
In :
Slavonic and East European Review
.
89
,
1
,
p. 1-28.
28 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
The Fantastic: An Enduring Literary Mode - Introduction
Whitehead, C. E.
Oct-2008
In :
Forum for Modern Language Studies
.
44
,
4
,
p. 353-362.
10 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Anton Chekhov's
The Black Monk
: An Example of the Fantastic?
Whitehead, C. E.
Oct-2007
In :
Slavonic and East European Review
.
85
,
4
,
p. 601-628.
29 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Playing at Detectives: Parody in
The Swedish Match
Whitehead, C. E.
Oct-2005
In :
Essays in Poetics
.
30
,
10
,
p. 229-246.
18 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
The Impact of Multiple Voice on Reader Hesitation: The Case of Vladimir Odoevskii's
The Sylph
Whitehead, C. E.
Apr-2003
In :
Modern Language Review
.
98
,
2
,
p. 397-415.
19 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Review of Radislav Lapushin's
"Dew on the Grass": The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov
Whitehead, C. E.
Apr-2012
In :
Slavonic and East European Review
.
90
,
2
,
p. 330-332.
3 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Review of Harvey Pitcher's
Responding to Chekhov
Whitehead, C. E.
Nov-2011
In :
Slavonica
.
17
,
2
,
p. 173-174.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Review of Priscilla Meyer's
How the Russians Read the French
Whitehead, C. E.
Apr-2011
In :
Slavonic and East European Review
.
89
,
2
,
p. 316-317.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Review of Philippe Met's
La lettre tue: spectre(s) de l'ecrit fantastique
Whitehead, C. E.
2010
In :
French Studies
.
64
,
4
,
p. 383.
384 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Review of Charlotte Krauss'
La Russie et Les Russes Dans La Fiction Fran
ç
aise Du XIXe Si
è
cle (1812-1917): D'Une Image De L'Autre
à
Un Univers Imaginaire
[
Russia and the Russians in XIXth century French fiction (1812-1917): From An Image of the Other to An Imaginary Universe]
Whitehead, C.
Apr-2008
In :
Modern Language Review
.
103
,
p. 499-500.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Review of Joe Andrew and Robert Reid's
Two Hundred Years of Pushkin
Whitehead, C. E.
Apr-2006
In :
Modern Language Review
.
101
,
p. 612-615.
4 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Review of Lesley Milne's
Reflective Laughter: Aspects of Humour in Russian Culture
Whitehead, C. E.
Jan-2006
In :
Slavonic and East European Review
.
84
,
1
,
p. 124-126.
3 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Review of Irina Sirotkina's
Diagnosing Literary Genius: A Cultural History of Psychiatry in Russia, 1880-1930
Whitehead, C. E.
Jul-2005
In :
Modern Language Review
.
100
,
p. 887-888.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
The Fantastic: An Enduring Literary Mode
Whitehead, C. E.
Oct-2008
In :
Forum for Modern Language Studies
.
44
,
4
,
p. 147.
147 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Special issue