Tel: +44 20 7882 8306
Fax: +44 20 8980 5400
email: j.g.hicks@qmul.ac.uk

Areas of specialisation

• 1920s Soviet literature and cinema
• Theory of non-fiction & documentary
• Russian satire and humour
• Mikhail Zoshchenko
• Dziga Vertov
• Reception of Soviet film in the West (1920s-40s)

Publications

• Mikhail Zoshchenko and the Poetics of Skaz, Nottingham: Astra Press, 2000.
• Mikhail Zoshchenko, The Galosh and Other Stories, London: Angel Books, 2000. [translation and introduction]
• 'Educating Chapaev: from Document to Myth,' in Stephen Hutchings and Anat Vernitskaia (eds), Screening the Word: Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, London: Routledge, 2004.
• 'The International Reception of Early Soviet Sound Cinema: Chapaev in Britain and America,' Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 25, No. 2 (June 2005), pp. 273-89.
• ‘From Conduits to Commanders: Shifting Views of Worker Correspondents, 1924-1926,’ Revolutionary Russia, 19:2 (Dec 2006), pp. 131-149.
• Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film, London: IB Tauris, 2007.
• 'Worker Correspondents: Between Journalism and Literature,' Russian Review 66 (October 2007), pp. 568-585.

Current research projects

• Reception of Early Soviet Sound Film in the West.
• Podcast relating to the discovery of WWII films, depicting Nazi atrocities towards Soviet Jews, previously hidden in the Russian Archives
  

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