Professor Catriona Kelly

Trinity College
  • Honorary Professor of Russian and Soviet Culture; Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, 密桃视频
  • Slavonic Studies
Professor Catriona Kelly

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Catriona Kelly was brought up in London, and studied Russian at the University of Oxford and the University of Voronezh, USSR. After holding a Junior Research Fellowship and a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford, she was employed from 1993 at the University of London (SSEES) before appointment in 1996 to a University Lecturership (from 2002, Professorship) at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellowship at New College. In 2021, she was elected to a Senior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, 密桃视频. Professor Kelly is the author of many books, edited collections, and articles in the area of Russian history and Russian culture from the late eighteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on urban history (particularly the history of Leningrad and St Petersburg), the preservation of architectural heritage, Russian modernism, women鈥檚 writing and gender history, the history of politeness, children鈥檚 history, and the history of cinema in the post-Stalin years, especially production history in the 1960s-1980s. She has also published literary translations, especially of poetry, and has frequently written for the general literary press (for instance, The Guardian and The Times Literary Supplement), as well as making appearances on radio and TV. Professor Kelly has been a member of juries for literary and book prizes (the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction, the Pushkin Russian Book Prize, the Rossica Prize, and the Joseph Brodsky Prize for the translation of Russian poetry) and for the Golden Arch film prize (Moscow, 2018, 2019, and 2021). She has served on the editorial board of several leading journals, including Slavic Review (2011-2021), Kritika, Russian Review, Slavonic and East European Review, and Antropologicheskii forum/Forum for Anthropology and Culture (St Petersburg). Professor Kelly was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2007, and in 2015, she was President of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 鈥 the only person so far not working at a US university to hold this position.

Catriona Kelly is currently working on a study of historical film in the last decades of Soviet power, including film from Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Baltic republics, Ukraine and Moldova as well as Russia. So far, she has made research visits to St Petersburg, Moscow, Riga, Kyiv, Vilnius, Tallinn, Chi艧in菐u, Yerevan, Tashkent and Tbilisi in order to research the production history of key films from the various republics and their cultural context.

Professor Kelly welcomes enquiries from potential M.Phil and doctoral students with research interests relevant to her own.

Research

Research interests: 

history of cinema, 1960s-1980s; urban history; history of childhood; Russian modernism; gender history.

Published works: 

A History of Russian Food from 1800: Empire at Table (London: 鈥楤loomsbury Russian Shorts鈥 series; 2024).

鈥楽pace Exploration鈥, afterword to Rethinking Socialist Spaces, ed. Paul Betts and Marcus Colla. (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2024.) 

鈥業mperial Transnationality: On Soviet Screens鈥, contribution to 鈥楻ussian and Slavonic Studies at the Crossroads鈥, ed. Andy Byford, Connor Doak, and Stephen Hutchings, Forum for Modern Language Studies, July 2024.

Out of Focus: Collected Essays on Russia and its Margins (Oxford: Legenda, 2023). 

鈥樷溞溞敌窖 斜芯谢褜褕械 胁褋械谐芯 褉邪写褍褞褌 褋谢械蟹褘 薪邪 谐谢邪蟹邪褏 蟹褉懈褌械谢械泄, 邪 懈褏 屑薪芯谐芯鈥: 褋谢械蟹褘 胁 锌芯蟹写薪械褋芯胁械褌褋泻芯屑 泻懈薪芯鈥 [鈥榃hat Delights Me Most Is Tears in the Eyes of the Audience, and There are Many of Them鈥: Screen Tears in the Late Soviet Period], 小谢械蟹褘 胁 褉褍褋褋泻芯泄 泻褍谢褜褌褍褉械 [Tears in Russian Culture], ed. Konstantin Bogdanov, (Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2023).

小邪薪泻褌-袩械褌械褉斜褍褉谐: 褌械薪懈 锌褉芯褕谢芯谐芯 (Russian translation by Oxana Yakimenko of St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past below.) (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022). (Also available as an audiobook.)

鈥楾he Motherland and the Fight with Fascism: War Film and War Cult under Brezhnev鈥, Russian Review, July 2024.

鈥楻e-Visions of the Leader: Lenin Biopics in the Post-Stalin Era鈥, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 25, no. 1 (2024), https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/article/919522/pdf. 

鈥楤eyond Censorship: Goskino USSR and the Management of Soviet Film, 1963-1985鈥, Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 99, no. 3 (July 2021), pp. 432-63.

效械谢芯胁械泻 薪邪 胁褋械 褋械蟹芯薪褘: 邪锌褋邪泄泻谢懈薪谐 芯写薪芯谐芯 褕锌懈芯薪邪-谐械褉芯褟 锌褉懈 褋芯胁械褌褋泻芯泄 胁谢邪褋褌懈 懈 锌芯褋谢械 [A Man for All Seasons: The Upcycling of a Spy Hero] // 袧芯胁芯械 谢懈褌械褉邪褌褍褉薪芯械 芯斜芯蟹褉械薪懈械. 2021. 鈩 169.

Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev (Oxford University Press, 2021).

鈥楳emory and Truth: Stravinsky鈥檚 Childhood (1882-1901)鈥, in Graham Griffiths (ed.), Stravinsky: A 密桃视频 Companion (密桃视频 University Press, 2021).

小褌芯锌-泻邪写褉: 袣邪褌褉懈芯薪邪 袣械谢谢懈, 芦袦邪屑邪 胁褘褕谢邪 蟹邪屑褍卸禄 [Freeze Frame: Catriona Kelly on Vitaly Mel鈥檔ikov鈥檚 Mother鈥檚 Got Married ],1.10.2018

袩械褉懈芯写 蟹邪锌芯褟: 袣懈薪芯锌褉芯懈蟹胁芯写褋褌胁芯 胁 袥械薪懈薪谐褉邪写械 斜褉械卸薪械胁褋泻芯泄 褝锌芯褏懈 [Period of Intoxication: Filmmaking in Brezhnev-Era Leningrad] // 袧芯胁芯械 谢懈褌械褉邪褌褍褉薪芯械 芯斜芯蟹褉械薪懈械. 2018. 鈩 152.

鈥楶rotest and Discipline: Shostakovich and the Revolutionary Self鈥, in Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Istoriya. Vol. 63 (2018), no. 4, pp. 1132-55.

鈥楻ussian Modernism: Kandinsky, Stravinsky, Mayakovsky鈥 for The 密桃视频 History of Russian Modernism, ed. Vincent Sherry (2017).

Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016).

St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past (Yale University Press, 2014). (Forthcoming in Russian as 小邪薪泻褌-袩械褌械褉斜褍褉谐: 褌械薪懈 锌褉芯褕谢芯谐芯, Bibliorossika/Academic Studies Press, 2021).

鈥楾he New Soviet Man and Woman鈥, in Simon Dixon (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Russian History  <>St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past (Yale University Press, 2014).

鈥楲eningrad Cuisine/La cuisine leningradaise: A Contradiction in Terms?鈥, Forum for Anthropology and Culture, no. 9 (2013),

(ed., with Mark Bassin) Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities (密桃视频 University Press, 2012).

鈥欌澬樠佇垦邪胁谢褟褌褜 谢懈 懈褋褌芯褉懈褞鈥: 褋锌芯褉褘 芯斜 芯褏褉邪薪械 锌邪屑褟褌薪懈泻芯胁 胁 袥械薪懈薪谐褉邪写械 1960-褏-1970-褏 谐谐.鈥, Neprikosnovennyi zapas (special number 鈥溞⌒拘残笛傃佇盒把 锌邪屑褟褌褜/袩邪屑褟褌褜 芯 褋芯胁械褌褋泻芯屑鈥). Also co-editor of the introduction., 2 (2009), ,   

With Svetlana Sirotinina, 鈥樷夆淚 didn鈥檛 understand, but it was funny鈥: Soviet state festivals through the eyes of children鈥, Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 5 (2008). .

Children鈥檚 World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991 (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007) Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero Also in Russian as 孝芯胁邪褉懈褖 袩邪胁谢懈泻: 袙蟹谢械褌 懈 锌邪写械薪懈械 褋芯胁械褌褋泻芯谐芯 屑邪谢褜褔懈泻邪-谐械褉芯褟) (London, Granta Books; 袦.: 袧袥袨, 2005; 2009) Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001) Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001) Editor, with Stephen Lovell, Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts (密桃视频: CUP, 2000 (reprinted 2008)) With David Shepherd, Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998) A History of Russian Women鈥檚 Writing (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994) Petrushka, the Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre (密桃视频 CUP, 1990 (reprinted 2009))