Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Sarah Hudspith

Lecturer

Dr Sarah Hudspith

0113 343 3290

BA (Exeter)
MA (Bristol)
PhD (Sheffield)
PCHE (Sheffield)

Research and publications

Work in progress

My current research is related to the Department's collaborative research project 'Moscow: A Global City'. I am preparing an article entitled 'Escape from Moscow? Russian women writers and the city', exploring contemporary women writers' portrayals of the Russian capital. Together with this, I am preparing a cluster issue of Slavic Review as guest editor, comprising proceedings from our recent conference on the topic of 'Moscow: A Global City'. My next research project will be to continue my work on humour on Dostoevsky with an article on laughter in his novel The Devils.

Monographs

  • Dostoevsky and the Idea of Russianness: A New Perspective on Unity and Brotherhood, London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

Book and Journal Articles

Forthcoming:

  • (with Vlad Strukov) 'Inverting the Imperial Dyad: Post-Soviet Screen Adaptations of Tolstoy's A Prisoner of the Caucasus' in Tolstoy Screen Adaptations,  ed. Lorna Fitzsimmons (in press).
  •  'Why we must laugh at the Underground Man' in Dostoevskii and the Text, eds Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Rodopi, Amsterdam (in press).

Published:

  • 'Life in the present: time and immortality in the works of Tolstoy', Modern Language Review, vol. 101, no. 4, pp. 1055-67, 2006.
  • 'Dialogues with Dostoevsky in Tolstoy's Resurrection', in Dostoevsky: on the Threshold of Other Worlds. Essays in Honour of Malcolm Jones, Nottingham: Bramcote Press, 2006, pp. 110-19.
  • 'Narrative, conscience and judgement in Tolstoy's Resurrection', Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. 17, pp. 20-34, 2005.
  • «Преступление, совесть и ответственность в романе Толстого Воскресение», Iasnopoliansky sbornik, Iasnaia Poliana, 2005, pp. 33-43.
  • «Достоевский и славянофильская эстетика», Филологические записки, vol. 18, pp. 75-83, 2002.
  • 'Narrative and Miscarriages of Justice in Tolstoy's Resurrection', Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. 14, pp. 15-24, 2002.
  • 'Studying Russian Language at University: Do Beginners Do Better?', in Language Learning Futures, ed. by J. Coleman, D. Ferney, D. Head, R. Rix, CILT, London, 2001, pp. 115-30.
  • 'Dostoevsky and the Slavophile Aesthetic', Dostoevsky Studies, vol. 4, pp. 177-194, 2000.
  • 'Slavophilism and the opposition of Russia and the West as themes in Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer', Rossiia i Zapad: Dialog kul'tur, no. 5, Moscow 1998, pp. 209-25

Software

  • Sarah Hudspith, Andrew Quilley, Keyboard Tsar, a Cyrillic typing tutor for non-native learners of Russian, University of Leeds, 2005.

Funding received

  • Leverhulme Visiting Professorship awarded 2009 (£28,335) to bring Prof. Helena Goscilo to the Department for one semester to work on the 'Moscow: A Global City' project.
  • University Teaching Fellowship awarded February 2004 (£4000), to fund the Keyboard Tsar project.
  • British Academy Overseas Conference Grant obtained to attend the 11th International Dostoevsky Symposium in Baden Baden in October 2001. (£265)

Postgraduate research supervision

I am currently supervising a student for an MA by research on the topic of Tolstoy and the teaching of music; I am available to supervise students in any area of 19th Century Russian literature, especially Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.