Graduate Student, Comparative Literature
Tutor
College of Arts - School of Critical Studies
Thesis Title: ‘The Loathsome Tint of Social Intent: Ideology and Aesthetics in the works of Vladimir Nabokov’
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Dr. Andrei Rogatchevskii
Professor. Laurence Davies |
About
My PhD thesis is a study of the relationship between Ideology & Aesthetics in the works of Vladimir Nabokov. I intend to read them through the Althusserian definition of ideology, and the psychoanalytical writings of Jacques Lacan, which inform Frederic Jameson’s concept of the ‘The Political Unconscious’.
Aside from Vladimir Nabokov, my research interests are primarily in Comparative Literature, Aesthetic Theory, Marxist Critical Theory in particular the work of Frederic Jameson and Louis Althusser, in addition to others such as Theodore Adorno, Bertolt Brecht and György Lukács and contemporary theorists such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou. I also have an interest in Russian linguistics and translation studies. I am currently working on a translation of two poems by Aleksandr Blok.
I am also interested in Russian Symbolism, Futurism, Futurist Poetry (in particular the work of Vladimir Mayakovskii) and Contemporary Russian and European Cinema and the Psychoanalytical writings of Jacques Lacan.
