After a year as Max Hayward Fellow at St Antony's (2010-11), Oliver Ready has now taken up a new position at the college as Research Fellow in Russian Society and Culture, and as Director of the Russkiy Mir Programme. In the latter capacity, he will be organizing a series of events and workshops on cultural themes. Oliver moved to St Antony's from Wolfson College, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the fascination with 'folly' exhibited by Russian writers of the late-Soviet period and where he also spent three years as a Junior Research Fellow, focusing on post-Soviet prose. He is now preparing a monograph combining these two stages of his research. He has recently published articles in Modern Language Review ('Aleksei Slapovskii and the Art of Adapting') and the Slavonic and East European Review ('In Praise of Booze: Moskva-Petushki and Erasmian Irony' and 'The Myth of Vasilii Rozanov the "Holy Fool" through the Twentieth Century'). He is general editor of the anthology, The Ties of Blood: Russian Literature from the 21st Century (Rossica, 2008). Dr Ready's publications as a literary translator include The Prussian Bride and The Zero Train by Yuri Buida. Since 2009 he has been working on a new translation of Crime and Punishment. He is Consultant Editor for Russia and East-Central Europe at the Times Literary Supplement. Contact: Telephone +44 1865 284776 Email oliver.ready@sant.ox.ac.uk
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