Department of Slavonic Studies

Department of Slavonic Studies

Diane Thompson's research interests are in nineteenth-century Russian literature; Dostoevsky; and Poetics in general. Her publications include The Brothers Karamazov and the Poetics of Memory (Cambridge, 1991) and a number of articles on Dostoevsky, among other, an article 'Dostoevsky and Science' in The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevsky (CUP, 2002). She was a contributor to and advisory editor for the volume: Cultural Discontinuity and Reconstruction: the Byzonto-Slav heritage and the creation of a Russian national literature in the nineteenth century, edited by Jostein Bortnes and Ingunn Lunde (Oslo, 1997). She co-edited with George Pattison a collection of conference essays entitled Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition (CUP, 2001).