Dr Olga Sobolev

My position at LSE involves both co-ordinating Literature Courses, as well as coordinating Russian Language provision. I am the Programme Director for our .

I specialise in Comparative Literature (British-French-Russian) with particular reference to Modernism and British-Russian cultural relations, reflected in my 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). I have 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, I am researching the reception of Russian performance arts in Britain, and I am involved in a multi-university project looking at the social function of the Russian intelligentsia.

In addition to my position at LSE, I am an external examiner to the Foreign Commonwealth Office.

My most recent publication is 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