Dr Emily Finer
Senior Lecturer
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 3648
- ef50@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- Room 37
- Location
- United Colleges
- Office hours
- Tuesday 2-4
Research areas
I work on transnational and multilingual interactions between English, Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish and Russian 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 multilingual children’s print culture of Ukraine and am joint PI on the Ostroh Academy/University of St Andrews Partnership for Advancing the Public Humanities funded by UUKi.
My second research focus is on intersections between global 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 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
- Grace Docherty
- Viktoriia Medvied
- Sarah King
Selected publications
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Open access
Science fiction media representations of exoplanets: portrayals of changing astronomical discoveries
Puranen, E., Finer, E., Helling, C. & Smith, V. A., 4 Mar 2024, In: Journal of Science Communication. 23, 1, 19 p., A04.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Kiev-town: Bulgakov's Guide to Kyiv. Translated with Introduction by Emily Finer
Finer, E., 23 Oct 2023, In: Kajet Digital.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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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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Remaking Charles Dickens for 21st-century Russia
Finer, E., 20 Apr 2022, Oxford research encyclopedia of literature. Lynch, D. S. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 22 p. (Oxford research encyclopedias).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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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
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