Catriona Kelly

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Catriona Kelly
FBA
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Professor Kelly in 2019
Born
Catriona Helen Moncrieff

(1959-10-06) 6 October 1959 (age 65)
Occupation(s)Historian, academic, writer
Parent(s) Alexander Kelly
Margaret Moncrieff
Relatives Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff (maternal grandfather)

Catriona Helen Moncrieff Kelly, FBA (born 6 October 1959) [1] is a British academic specialising in Russian culture. [2] [3] From 1996 to 2021, she was Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College. [4] [5] In 2021, she was elected senior research fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and honorary professor of the University of Cambridge. [6]

Catriona Kelly was brought up in London. Her parents were pianist Alexander Kelly and cellist Margaret Moncrieff. Her sister is the cellist Alison Moncrieff-Kelly [7] and she is married to neuroscientist Professor Ian Thompson. [8] Her grandfather was Alexander Moncrieff and Hope Mirlees was her mother's first cousin. She was educated at the school in London run by the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion (1969–1970) and at Godolphin and Latymer School (1970–1977). After spending six months living in Vienna, she read Russian and German at the University of Oxford, including a year (1980–1981) as a visiting student at Voronezh State University, USSR, sponsored by the British Council. She went on to complete a doctorate on the Russian poet Innokenty Annensky at Oxford (1985).

She was a senior scholar and junior research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford (1983–1993) and then lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (1993–1996), [9] before taking up her position at the University of Oxford and New College. [10]

Kelly is the author of many books about Russian history and culture, including Petrushka, the Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1990), A History of Russian Women's Writing (Oxford University Press, 1994), Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin (Oxford University Press, 2001), Russian Literature, A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2001), Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero (Granta Books, 2005/Moscow, 2009), a study of the boy hero Pavlik Morozov, St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past (Yale University Press, 2014), Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988, Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev (Oxford University Press, 2021), and articles for professional journals and for the general press. [11] [12] She is the editor of Utopias: Russian Modernism, 1905-1940 (Penguin, 1999) and (with Stephen Lovell) of Russian Modernism and the Visual Arts (Cambridge University Press, 2000). In 2015, Catriona Kelly was president of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, [13] the first person working at a university outside the United States to be appointed to this position.

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  2. ↑ "KELLY, Prof. Catriona Helen Moncrieff". Who's Who 2014. A & C Black. December 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Professor Catriona Kelly". britac.ac.uk. The British Academy. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Professor C.H.M. Kelly". Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. University of Oxford. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Catriona Kelly". The Fellows. New College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "Professor C.H.M. Kelly".
  7. ↑ "Alison Moncrieff-Kelly". 3 August 2018.
  8. ↑ "CDN - people-detail".
  9. ↑ "UCL – University College London". 7 August 2017.
  10. ↑ "Catriona Kelly | New College".
  11. ↑ "Catriona Kelly | the Guardian". TheGuardian.com .
  12. ↑ "Words not paints - Social & cultural studies".
  13. ↑ "Past Members of the Board of Directors | ASEEES".
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