Dr M Maguire
Dr Muireann Maguire
Career Development Fellow in Russian Literature and Culture
Address: Wadham College, Oxford
Email: muireann.maguire@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 277930
Research
Dr Maguire completed her PhD dissertation at the University of Cambridge in 2009 on the persistence of Gothic-fantastic themes in Soviet Russian literature. Her current research project examines the representation and cultural reception of science and scientists in Russian and Soviet literature and cinema, between approximately 1860 and 1940. Other research interests include Russian science fiction (especially the novels of Aleksandr Beliaev) and Russian émigré fiction of the first wave, especially the work of Gaito Gazdanov.
Teaching
Dr Maguire will teach a number of courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, examining individual writers (including Dostoevsky, Bulgakov and Blok), and also general themes such as the Gothic-fantastic mode, the Russian Short Story, and the rise of Socialist Realism.
Dr Maguire co-convenes the Oxford Graduate Seminars with Professor Zorin and Dr von Zitzewitz.
Publications
Dr Maguire is currently revising her doctoral dissertation on the Gothic-fantastic in twentieth-century Russian literature as a book, entitled Stalin’s Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature (Peter Lang; forthcoming 2012). Her book of eleven original translations of Russian twentieth-century supernatural fiction, Red Spectres, will be published by Angel Classics in autumn 2012. Previous and forthcoming publications include:
- ‘Ghostwritten: Reading Spiritualism and Feminism in the Works of Rachilde and Vera Kryzhanovskaia-Rochester’, Modern Language Review; (106: 2, 2011), pp. 313-332.
- ‘Post-Lamarckian Prodigies: Evolutionary Biology in Soviet Science Fiction’, New Zealand Slavonic Journal (43: 2009), pp. 23-54.
- ‘A “dreadful predilection”: The Gothic-Fantastic in Soviet Socialist Realist Literature’, Gothic Studies; forthcoming 2012.
- ‘“Kto umeet zhit’ obmanom”: Wizards and Diviners in Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Theatre’, Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia Newsletter, No. 34 (July 2006).
- Articles on ‘Russian Gothic’ and ‘Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii’ for the Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com).
She has co-edited, with Vanessa Rampton, a special issue of Studies in East European Thought (63:2, 2011), 'Russia on Edge: Reclaiming the Periphery in Contemporary Russian Culture'. Dr Maguire regularly reviews for Modern Language Review and the Times Literary Supplement, among other publications.
She also co-writes and edits a collaborative blog on Slavonic science fiction entitled Snail on the Slope.