Dr Rajendra Chitnis

Research summary

My research and teaching focus on Czech literature from the nineteenth century to the present, and Russian and Slovak fiction since the 1960s. I have published monographs on Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction of the post-Communist transition, and on the Czech Avant-garde novelist and dramatist, Vladislav Vančura, and articles on Ladislav Fuks and Alena Vostrá, among others. I am currently working on the portrayal of the countryside in Czech literature. My next monograph will explore the Czech inter-war Ruralist movement. In addition to units on modern Czech and contemporary Russian literature, I have also been known to teach units in ...

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Biography

I have a BA in Russian Studies (Sheffield, 1993) and MA in East European Studies and PhD from SSEES-UCL (1997, 2003). From 1993-96 I taught English and British Studies at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. I took up my present post at Bristol in 1999.

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Selected publications

• Chitnis, R 2005, ‘Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe: The Russian, Czech and Slovak Fiction of the Changes, 1988-1998’. RoutledgeCurzon
• Chitnis, R 2007, ‘Vladislav Vančura: The Heart of the Czech Avant-garde’. Karolinum Press, Charles University in Prague

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Recent publications

• Chitnis, R 2012, ‘Alien Planet’. Times Literary Supplement., pp. 21 - 21
• Chitnis, R 2012, ‘‘Moral Limits’: The Expression and Suppression of Guilt in Czech Post-War Writing About the Borderlands’. Central Europe, vol 10., pp. 18 - 54

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