Project Team
The project team includes
- Professor Stephen Hutchings (Principle Investigator),
- Professor Vera Tolz (Co-investigator)
- Dr Elisabeth Schimpfossl (Research Associate) and
- Dr Sue-Ann Harding (former Research Associate).
Principal Investigator: Professor Stephen Hutchings
Stephen Hutchings has research interests in Russian cultural and media studies, Russian and Soviet television and film, Russian and Soviet literature and literary/cultural theory. This research project is his fourth major AHRC research grant.
He recently completed a three-year AHRC funded project on 'European Television Representations of Islam as a Security Threat: A Comparative Study (Russia, France, UK)' (£490,000). The project, for which Stephen was the PI,was interdisciplinary and was carried out in collaboration with the Politics Department at the University of Surrey.)
Stephen's second three-year AHRC-funded project ran from 2003 to 2006 and was on 'Post-Soviet Television Culture' (£165,000), and the first AHRC project, 'An Analysis of the Relationship between Russian Literature and the Camera Media: The Word as Image' (£111,000), ran between 2000 and 2003.
He is co-author (with Natalia Rulyova) of Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control (London: Routledge, 2009), and author of Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age: The Word as Image (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004); Russian Modernism: The Transfiguration of the Everyday (Cambridge: CUP, 1997); A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909 (London: MHRA, 1990). He is editor of Russia and its Others on Film: Screening Intercultural Dialogue (London: Palgrave, 2008), and co-editor of The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals (London: Routledge, 2009).
For more details, including teaching areas, see his university staff page.
Russian and East European Studies
Co-investigator: Professor Vera Tolz
Vera Tolz is Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies and Head of Russian and East European Studies. She has published widely on nation-building, nationalism and the politics of identity in Russia both historically and in relation to the present day.
For more details, including publications and teaching areas, see her university staff page.
