{"id":2,"date":"2009-07-27T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2016-01-18T09:45:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T09:45:58","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I began studying Russian at school, and got hooked on Russian literature after an early encounter with Gogol’s Nose<\/em>. A degree in Russian and French at Trinity College, Cambridge, including a year studying in Moscow and Minsk, was followed by a brief period translating books on chess theory from Russian. After studying for my Masters at the University of Manchester, I was supervised for my PhD by Malcolm Jones at the University of Nottingham, resulting in a thesis on the role of character in the structuring of the narrative of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I subsequently held a Leverhulme Special (Early-Career) Research Fellowship at the University of Nottingham (2001-3), and also taught at the University of Leeds. From 2005-7, I taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature and social thought at the University of Toronto, before joining the Russian department at SSEES in September 2007. I currently teach MA courses on\u00a0the 19th century Russian novel and 20th century Russian and East European modernist literature, and undergraduate courses on 19th century Russian thought, Dostoevsky,\u00a0Russian Literature in Revolution\u00a0(1917-53), the Making of Modern Russian Culture, and Tales of the Unexpected: the supernatural and fantastic in literature, 1800-1930. I have served\u00a0on the BASEES national committee as secretary, and am\u00a0British representative of the International Dostoevsky Society.\u00a0I am the Russian and East European section editor for Modern Languages Open<\/a>, also a member of the editorial board of The Slavonic and East European Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong>
\nMy main areas of research are nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, thought and culture. I am specifically interested in questions of ethics and subjectivity in the development of narrative, including narratives of trauma and imprisonment; the tradition of Russian literature and the arts as the locus of political debate and dissent; the role of religion and spiritual ideas in Russian literature; the significance of silence, gaps and what is not said in literary texts; and questions of time and space in Russian literature. The latter in particular has developed into a new interest in ways of visualizing literary texts which is bringing me (slowly!) into the field of Digital Humanities and explorations of forms of reading digital texts.<\/p>\n

My published work so far has focused on Dostoevsky, in my monograph, Dostoevsky’s<\/em> ‘The Idiot’ and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative<\/em>, and a co-edited book of essays, Dostoevsky on the Threshold of Other Worlds<\/em>. I have also published essays on Varlam Shalamov, Vasilii Grossman, and 19th-century Russian prison and exile writing. I am currently working on a book-length study of the tradition of Russian labour camp and prison writing,\u00a0and on further articles about Shalamov, Dostoevsky, and questions related to narratives of imprisonment and exile.<\/p>\n

\"Creative<\/a>
\nAll the work on this site is by Sarah J. Young and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License<\/a>, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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