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Details for Professor Derek Offord
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Derek Offord |
| Job title | Research Professor |
| Department | Department of Russian University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BA(Cantab), PhD(Lond) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | Herzen Russian history Russian thought literature Russia travel national identity |
| Areas of expertise | I am a specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian history, thought and literature. I have published books on the history of the revolutionary movement in its Populist phase and on the debates in the intelligentsia in the middle of the nineteenth century. In my most recent monograph, Journeys to a Graveyard (2006), I explore the way in which the accounts of Russian writers travelling in the west over two centuries from the early-modern period to the late tsarist period served to shape notions of national identity as Russia entered the European world. Projects on which I am currently working include an examination of the role of non-fictional prose in nineteenth-century Russia and a multidisciplinary history of the French language in Russia from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. |