Department of Slavonic Studies

Department of Slavonic Studies

Brian Cooper is a graduate of the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis was written on the history and development of the ode in Russia. His research interests now centre on lexicological and etymological studies in Russian and Slavonic languages, especially in the field of Russian plant nomenclature. He has published many articles in these areas in scholarly journals throughout the world, most recently in Slavia (2000), Revue des Etudes Slaves (2006), Slavonica (2009), Australian Slavic and East European Studies (2007) and Transactions of the Philological Society (2008), Slavonic and East European Review (2005), Russian Linguistics(2007) and Slavica Etymologica Cracoviensis (2009). In 2003 he published a book on the origin of some Russian plant names entitled Of cabbages - and kings: lexicological and etymological studies on Russian plant nomenclature. In 2009 he published a Russian - English, English - Russian Dictionary of Plant Breeding and Genetics.