Professor Stephen Hutchings (Russian, University of Manchester) International Broadcasting, Social Media and the The New Cold War: From BBC World to Russia Today 5.15pm, Buchanan room 216 Stephen Hutchings is currently Professor of Russian at the University of Manchester. Prior to this he held the posts of Professor of Cultural Studies and Russian at the University of Surrey (1996-2006) and Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Rochester, New York (1990-1996). He is President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies and was a member of the RAE 2008 subpanel for Russian and Slavonic Languages and Cultures. He is on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Russian Journal of Communication, ArtMargins, and Russian Studies in Literature. Professor Hutchings has research interests in Russian cultural and media studies, Russian and Soviet television and film, Russian and Soviet literature and literary/cultural theory. He recently completed work on a 4th major AHRC funded project, which he led with Professor Vera Tolz. The project, which ran from 2010-2013, was called Mediating Difference: Post-Soviet Russian Television Representations of Inter-Ethnic Cohesion Issues’. His talk at St Andrews on Thursday will draw on research conducted as part of this project and new studies in this field. Professor Hutchings has led a number of major research projects in the fields of Russian cultural and media studies. These include a 3-year AHRC funded project on European Television Representations of Islam as a Security Threat: A Comparative Study (Russia, France, UK)’ (2006-2009), which was carried out in collaboration with the Politics Department at the University of Surrey, a 3-year AHRC-funded project on Post-Soviet Television Culture’ (2003-2006), and a 3-year AHRC-funded project entitled An Analysis of the Relationship between Russian Literature and the Camera Media: The Word as Image’ (2000-2003). Professor Hutchings is co-author (with Natalia Rulyova) of Television and Culture in Putins Russia: RemoteControl (London: Routledge, 2009), and author of Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age: The Word as Image (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004); Russian Modernism: The Transfiguration of the Everyday (Cambridge: CUP, 1997); A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909 (London: MHRA, 1990). He is editor of Russia and its Others on Film: Screening Intercultural Dialogue (London: Palgrave, 2008), and co-editor of The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals (London: Routledge, 2009). We hope that as many of you as possible will be able to join us for what promises to be fascinating event.
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