Dr Olga Sobolev

Olga's position at LSE involves both co-ordinating Literature Courses, as well as coordinating Russian Language provision. She is the Programme Director for the BSc Language, Culture and Society programme.

Olga specialises in Comparative Literature (British-French-Russian) with particular reference to Modernism and British-Russian cultural relations, reflected in her monographs From Orientalism to Cultural Capital: the Myth of Russia in British Literature in the 1920s (2017); G. B. Shaw in Russia; and The Silver Mask (on the Russian Symbolist poetry). She has published extensively on the reception of British authors in Russia, Anglo-Russian intercultural communication and on Russian literature (nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first century). At present, she is researching the reception of Russian performance arts in Britain, and is involved in a multi-university project looking at the social function of the Russian intelligentsia.

In addition to her position at LSE, Olga is an external examiner to the Foreign Commonwealth Office.

Most recent publication: Film Adaptations of Russian Classics Dialogism and Authorship. Edited by Alexandra Smith, Olga Sobolev. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Expertise

Comparative literature, Russian symbolism, French symbolism, Russian modernism, French modernism, Russian literature, Russian art, Anglo-Soviet comparative studies, Literature and the Cold War period, Post-totalitarian culture