Max Hayward Visiting Fellowship
The Max Hayward Visiting Fellowship is not currently accepting applications.
We expect to offer the next Max Hayward Visiting Fellowship in the 27/28 academic year, accepting applications in early 2027.
The Max Hayward Visiting Fellowship
The Fellowship is attached to the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre (RESC) at St Antony’s College. It supports scholars working on literature and culture related to Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia.
Fellows may undertake:
- Research
- Literary or cultural criticism
- Editing
- Translation
- Preparation of a thesis for publication
- Other forms of scholarly work relevant to the region
Fellowship details
The Max Hayward Visiting Fellowship offers an exceptional opportunity to spend three academic terms at St Antony’s College.
Fellows receive:
- An expenses allowance of £22,000
- Access to a range of College entitlements and resources
- A place within a vibrant, international academic community at RESC
During the Fellowship, the Fellow is expected to:
- Live in Oxford
- Contribute actively to the academic life of RESC and the College
- Lead one of RESC’s renowned termly seminar series, focusing on a cultural or societal theme, to be agreed with the Centre Director
Previous Max Hayward Visiting Fellows
2022-23
Darya Tsymbalyuk
Preparation for publication of doctoral thesis, Multispecies ruptures: stories of displacement and human-plant relations from Donbas, Ukraine (a study of experiences of displacement among migrants from war in Donbas, Ukraine, and artistic responses through the medium of human-plant relations).
Dr Tsymbalyuk is Assistant Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
2019-2021
Maria Chehonadskih
Preparation for publication of manuscript entitled The Encyclopaedia of Poor Life: Andrei Platonov’s Philosophical Prose and Alexander Bogdanov’s Tektology.
Dr Chehonadskih teaches in the Modern Languages and Cultures Department, Queen Mary University of London.
Dr Chehonadskih’s tenure of the Fellowship was extended due to the Covid pandemic.
2016-2017
Claire Knight
Preparation of monograph: Stalin’s Final Films: Soviet Cinema and Stalinism After the War, 1945-53.
Dr Knight teaches Russian and Soviet political, social, and cultural history at the University of Bristol, plus methodologies of film analysis at MA level.
2013-2014
Uilleam Blacker
Preparation of monograph entitled Ghosts of Others: Urban Postmemory in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Dr Blacker is Associate Professor in Ukrainian and East European Culture at UCL-SSEES.
2010-2011
Oliver Ready
Work on monograph on 1990s prose-writers, for Peter Lang monograph series Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas.
Dr Ready teaches Russian literature for the Slavonic Sub-Faculty at the University of Oxford, and is a renowned translator of Russian literature.
From 2011-2022 he was a Research Fellow at St Antony’s, directing the Russkiy Mir Programme from 2011-2014, and convening many successful cultural events for RESC.
2008-2009
Stephanie Solywoda
Preparation for publication of doctoral thesis: Internal Visions, External Changes: Russian Religious Philosophy from 1905-1940.
2006-2007
Elena Katz
Preparation for publication of manuscript: Neither with Them, Nor without Them. Russian Writers and the Jew at the Age of Realism.
2004-2005
Polly McMichael
Preparation for publication of doctoral thesis: Rock music in Leningrad, 1972-1987.
2003
Polly Jones
Preparation for publication of doctoral thesis: Strategies of de-mythologisation in post-Stalinism and post-Communism: a comparison of de-Stalinisation and de-Leninisation.
2000-2001
Rachel Clogg
Preparation for publication of doctoral thesis: Abkhazian cultural identity in the twentieth century: the case of Fazil’ Iskander.
1998-1999
Barbara Henry
Anti-semitism and anti-theatricality: Yiddish theatre in turn-of-the-century Russia.
1996-1997
Svetlana Carsten
Completion of thesis The generation of the 1960s in Soviet literature and preparation for publication.
1994-1995
Craig Brandist
A study of the carnivalesque elements in the prose works of late 1920s and early 1930s Soviet literature.
1993
Rosamund Bartlett
Preparation for publication of doctoral thesis: Wagner and Russia: a study of the influence of Wagner’s music and ideas on the artistic and cultural life of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1841-1941
1989-1990
Stanley Rabinowitz
A study of turn-of-the-century Russian literary journals and their role in the emergence of Symbolism.
1986-1987
Riitta Pittman
Preparation for publication of doctoral thesis: Mikhail Bulgakov: the theme of evil in Master i Margarita.
March 1985
Andrzej Drawicz
Revised edition of Soviet Literature 1917-1967: Russian Writers
Dr Drawicz was elected to the Fellowship for a year in December 1981 but was subsequently interned in Poland.
1984-1985
Raymond Cooke
Preparation for publication of doctoral thesis entitled The poetic world of Velimir Khlebnikov: an interpretation.