Dr Katherine A New

I have been involved in teaching and student support at Oxford University since 2017. I have held research and teaching positions, including a Stipendiary Lectureship at Oriel College (2021-2023), a Non-stipendiary Lectureship at University College (Michaelmas 2022), a Graduate Teaching Assistantship at New College (2019-2023) and a Research Assistantship at St Edmund Hall for the CatCor project (2020-21). 

My research interests are focused on 19th-20th century Russian literature, drama and theatre, and on gender studies. My publications include articles on Russian drama of the 19th-20th century (from Ostrovsky and Chekhov to Razumovskaya); Russian poetry (from Pushkin to Mayakovsky and Khodasevich); gender studies in modern Russian culture; the reception of ancient drama in Russian literature; narratological and intertextual studies.

My current research is based on a broadly comparative study of Russian 19th-20th drama as a creative system, entering into a dialogical relationship with European literary traditions. My other research interests include studies of social and ethnic Slavic cultures; mythology and folklore; philosophical and religious thought (I have written on Classical and modern European philosophy, giving special attention to the teachings of the pre-Socratics, Hylozoists and Panpsychists, as well as Nietzsche, Vyacheslav Ivanov and Vladimir Solovyov); translation studies, both theoretical and practical (I have published on the theory of diachronic, interlingual, transcultural translation); environmental humanities.