New College
Professor Catriona Kelly
Honorary Faculty Research Fellow, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Professor Kelly's research interests include the history of childhood, urban history, the history of Soviet cinema in the post-Stalin era (in Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Baltic States, Ukraine and Moldova as well as Russia) and the history of food.
About
Professor Kelly studies Russian literature and Russian cultural history, particularly Russian modernism, gender history, the history of childhood, national identity, and the recent history of Leningrad/St Petersburg.
She also works as a literary translator, particularly of poetry, and writes for the general literary press (particularly The Guardian and The Times Literary Supplement).
Expertise
- History
- History of childhood
- Identity
- Literature
- Modernism
- Russia
- Russian cultural history
- Russian literature
- Russian modernism
- Russian national identity
- Soviet history
- History of the Societ cinema
Selected publications
- Russian Food since 1800: Empire at Table (2024)
- Out of Focus: Russian Culture at the Margins (2023)
- Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev (2021)
- Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988 (2016)
- St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past (2014)
- Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities (2011)
- Russian Literature: A Brief Insight (2010)
- Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero (2005)
Languages
English, Russian