Alexandra Smith

Dr Alexandra Smith (PhD, SSEEES, UCL) is Reader in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she has been teaching since 2007. Prior to coming to the University of Edinburgh, she worked at the University of Essex, University of Bristol, University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and the University of Sheffield. 

Her research interests include:

• Literary and film theory
• Critical theory
• Comparative literature
• Russian 19th-, 20th- and 21st- century literature and history of ideas 
• Literature and other arts
• Émigré writing

Alexandra has published extensively on Russian literature and culture, and has authored/co-edited the following books:

• Alexandra Smith and Olga Sobolev, eds. Film Adaptations of Russian Classics: Dialogism and Authorship (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
• Poetic Canons, Cultural Memory and Russian National Identity after 1991 (co-authored with Katharine Hodgson) (2020);  
• Twentieth- Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon (co-edited with Katharine Hodgson and Joanne Shelton) (2017); 
• Montaging Pushkin: Pushkin and Visions of Modernity in Russian 20th-century Poetry (2006); 
• Pesn ́ peresmeshnika: Pushkin v tvorchestve Mariny Tsvetaevoi (1998); 
• The Song of the Mockingbird: Pushkin in the Work of Marina Tsvetaeva (1994).