Dr Emily Finer
Senior Lecturer
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 3648
- ef50@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- Room 37
- Location
- United Colleges
- Office hours
- Monday 3-4, Tuesday 10-11
Research areas
I work on transnational and multilingual interactions between Russian, Polish, Jewish and English language cultures. In addition to teaching in the Department of Russian, I was the founding convenor of the degree in Comparative Literature which brings together all the languages and cultures taught in the School of Modern Languages at St Andrews. I currently hold a St Andrews / Emory Collaborative Grant for a project researching the multilingual children’s print culture of Ukraine.
My second research focus is on intersections between science fiction, exoplanet science, and space policy. I am PI for a STAIRS grant ‘Forecasting Reproduction in Space’ which asks whether science fiction and scientific papers address similar issues around reproduction and agency in space and investigates the techniques used in literary and scientific writing to communicate complex ethical issues. This follows my earlier research and monograph on Viktor Shklovskii, a literary theorist who aimed to make literary analysis more scientific. I am Co-Director of an interdisciplinary research centre: St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science.
I have been an interviewee and researcher on The Cultural Front (BBC Radio 4), The Sunday Feature (BBC Radio 3), the Red Mars Series (BBC Radio 4), and In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio 4).
I offer research-led Honours modules on the following topics:
- Children’s Literature in Russian (1900-present day)
- Modernist Prose in Russian
- Pushkin Out of Context
I am convenor of the School Ethics Committee for Modern Languages.
PhD supervision
- Sarah King
- Sarah King
- Emma Puranen
- James Gregg
- Viktoriia Medvied
- Grace Docherty
Selected publications
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Open access
“I don’t mix much”: language mixing in transnational Polish-British culture 2012-18
Finer, E., 19 May 2020, In: Modern Languages Open. 2020, 1, p. 1-20 20 p., 6.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Dombey in Zhitomir, Pip in Taganrog: reading Dickens ‘as if for life’ in Russia
Finer, E., Apr 2019, In: Modern Language Review. 114, 2, p. 316-335Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Testing the boundaries: migration & metamorphosis in Lev Lunts
Finer, E., Feb 2019, In: Jewish Culture and History. 20, 1, p. 43-61Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Turning into Sterne: Viktor Shklovskii and Literary Reception.
Finer, E., 2010, Oxford: Legenda. 161 p. (Studies in Comparative Literature; vol. 18)Research output: Book/Report › Book