Department of Slavonic Studies

Staff Lists

Permanent Academic Members of Staff

John A Dunn, (MA, DPhil), Head of Department, Lecturer in Russian

• History of the Russian language, with particular reference to the 17th and 18th centuries
• Russian language in the post-Soviet period
• Developments in Russian television

telephone: +44 141 330 5591
electronic mail: J.Dunn@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Bob Porter, (BA, PhD), Professor, Lecturer in Czech and Russian

• Russian literature of the late twentieth century
• Czech twentieth-century prose fiction
• Translation from Czech and Russian

telephone: +44 141 330 4731
electronic mail: R.Porter@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

John M Bates, (BA, MPhil, PhD), Lecturer in Polish

• Polish language and literature
• censorship in Poland
• Polish history and thought

telephone: +44 141 330 5596
electronic mail: J.Bates@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Jan Čulík, (prom. fil., PhDr), Lecturer in Czech

• Czech literature
• Czech culture and politics
• Media in the Czech Republic

telephone: +44 141 330 5588
electronic mail: J.Culik@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Elwira M Grossman, (MA, PhD), Lecturer in Polish

• Modern Polish drama
• Polish language and literature
• Contemporary Polish cinema

telephone: +44 141 330 5589
electronic mail: E.Grossman@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Margaret H Tejerizo, (MA, BA, PhD), Lecturer in Russian

• Russian language and literature
• Comparative literature (Russian/Hispanic)
• Romanian language and literature

telephone: +44 141 330 5587
electronic mail: M.Tejerizo@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Andrei Rogatchevski, (PhD), Lecturer in Russian

• 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature
• Russian politics, history and culture
• Russian-British and Russian-Jewish cultural links
• Theory of literature

telephone: +44 141 330 5590
electronic mail: A.Rogatchevski@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Permanent Secretarial Members of Staff

Maggie F Baister, (AIL)

telephone: +44 141 330 5418
electronic mail: M.Baister@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Louise A Boyle, (MA, Dip Sec Studies, CLLS, AIL)

• Lifelong learning
• Adult education, particularly language acquisition
• Distance learning
• Online classes

telephone: +44 141 330 5418
electronic mail: L.Boyle@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Temporary and Associate Members of Staff

Ilona Bílková, (MEd), Czech Lecturer (part-time)

• Teaching Czech as a foreign language
• Comparative grammar, particularly lexicology
• Contemporary Czech history

telephone: +44 141 330 5592
electronic mail: I.Bilkova@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Martin Dewhirst, (BA [Oxon], MA [Oxon]), Honorary Research Fellow

• 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature
• Russian thought and philosophy
• Censorship in Russia and the USSR
• Samizdat

telephone: +44 141 330 5418
electronic mail: M.Dewhirst@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Josef Fronek, (Prom Ped, MA, PhD), Senior Honorary Research Fellow

• Czech lexicography
• English lexicography

telephone: +44 141 330 5418
electronic mail: J.Fronek@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Peter Henry, (MA), Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow

• language teaching (with reference to both Russian and English)
• the writer Vsevolod Garshin

telephone: +44 141 330 5418

Mike Kirkwood, (MA Glasgow, MA Lancaster), Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow

• language teaching (with reference to both Russian and English)
• Soviet and post-Soviet language policy
• translation theory and practice
• the writer Alexander Zinoviev

telephone: +44 141 330 5418
electronic mail: Mike Kirkwood

Jaroslava Lapáčková, (Magister), Czech Lektor

• Russian Symbolist Movement
• Russian Modern Drama within the European Context
• Teaching Czech as a foreign language
• Creating methodological tools for teaching Czech as a foreign language

telephone: +44 141 330 5598
electronic mail: J.Lapackova@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Susan Layton, (PhD), Graduate Tutorial Assistant and Honorary Research Fellow

• Literary and cultural history of Russian empire-building
• Literature and the remembrance of war
• Tolstoi and poetry

telephone: +44 141 330 5418
electronic mail: S.Layton@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Elsa Morrison, (MA), Honorary Research Fellow

• Czech Literature

telephone: +44 141 330 5418

Liubov Osinkina, (PhD), Honorary Research Fellow

telephone: +44 141 330 5418

Neil Parsons, (BA, MLitt), Honorary Research Fellow

• Russian literature
• Literary translation
• Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian history

telephone: +44 141 330 5418

Marta Rabikowska , (PhD, University of Silesia), Polish Lektor

• Contemporary theory of literature
• Gender Studies
• Philosophy of the 20th Century
• Discourse of Media

telephone: +44 141 330 5598
electronic mail: M.Rabikowska@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Vladislava Reznik, (MA, Donetsk State University), Russian Lektor

• Russian modernism
• linguistic theories of the early Soviet period
• language policy and construction

Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia, (PhD, MSc), Graduate Tutorial Assistant and Honorary Research Fellow

• Old Russian literature
• Russian émigré literature
• Cultural studies
• Information policy in post-Soviet Russia

Natalia Samoilova, Honorary Research Fellow

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Last Updated: 04 July 2002