Joe Andrew is a British

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 academic

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 whose main research interests are 19th century Russian literature

Russian literature

Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union...

, feminist

Feminism

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 approaches to literature, and women writers. More recently, Andrew has shown great interest in film studies, leading film-based modules on the Media, Communications and Culture programme at Keele University.

Andrew is Professor

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 of Russian Literature at Keele University

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. His publishing history includes 24 book

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s (monograph

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s, single authored research translations, single edited books, co-edited books, and co-translated books), 61 articles (single authored articles in refereed journals

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, single authored chapters in books, and co-authored chapters in books), 57 translations, and 58 reviews

Book review

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.

Early life

Educated at Bemrose School

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, Derby

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, Joe Andrew was a grammar school

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 boy from a non-intellectual, Roman Catholic

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, middle class

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 family. He won a Scholarship

Scholarship

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 to study at University College, Oxford

University College, Oxford

.University College , is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2009 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £110m...

 and, in 1969, he was awarded a First-Class Honours degree in Modern Languages

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.

In 1971, whilst researching the history of the Russian literary language at Wolfson College, Oxford

Wolfson College, Oxford

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, Andrew joined the recently formed ‘Neo-Formalist Circle’. His membership of the Circle, and his interest in Russian formalism

Russian formalism

Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars such as Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Propp, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Grigory Vinokur who...

, has continued to the present- day.

Academic career

Joe Andrew was appointed Lecturer

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 in Russian Studies

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 at Keele University 1972. He became a Senior Lecturer in 1989 and Reader

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 in 1993. In 1995, he was elevated to Professor.

Andrew’s teaching has included courses on Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...

, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov....

, Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...

, Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest...

, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...

, Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century...

 and women in Russian literature. He has delivered 70 invited lectures & conference papers all around the world.

Joe Andrew, and his departmental colleague Chris Pike, began organising the Neo-Formalist Circle from Keele University in the mid 1970s. This led to a “considerable consolidation of the Neo-Formalist Circle, to the extent that it is now very much a fixture on the British and international academic scenes” The Circle’s twice-a-year journal ‘Essays in Poetics’ first appeared in April 1976 and was edited by Andrew and Pike. In 1990, Robert Reid replaced Pike as the both Circle’s co-chair and the journal’s joint editor. Andrew remained Chair and joint editor until 2006.

During Andrew’s leadership of the Neo-Formalist Circle it has organized several special conferences, on literary figures such as Chekhov, Gogol, Platonov

Andrei Platonov

Andrei Platonov was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov , a Soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies...

 and Pushkin. These conferences have led to the publication of a number of edited volumes.

Activities outside the academy

Until recently, Joe Andrew has had a long history of involvement in Voluntary sector

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 organisations set up to tackle Homelessness

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 in North Staffordshire

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North Staffordshire describes an area of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It contains the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire Moorlands and the City of Stoke-on-Trent. The Stoke and Newcastle areas make up The Potteries Urban Area, whilst the Moorlands are largely...

. From 1983 to 1991 he was on the voluntary Board of Management

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 for Potteries Housing Association (a special needs housing charity which ran an emergency direct-access hostel in Hanley). He was a member of the North Staffs Homelessness Forum, the North Staffs Review Team for the Closure of DHSS

Department of Health and Social Security

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 Resettlement Units and the National Advisory Steering Group for the Closure of DHSS Resettlement Units. He served as Vice-Chair (1986-9) and Chair (1989–92) of North Staffs Standing Conference on Homelessness.

From 1987 to 2006, Andrew also served as the Chair of Committee of Resettlement Project North Staffs (which later became ‘ARCH North Staffs), a Charitable organisation providing a range of services to vulnerable people.

Andrew rediscovered his Catholicism

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 after meeting his wife. He is a committed campaigner for CAFOD

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 and an active lay Catholic.

He and his wife Barbara live in Hartshill

Hartshill, Staffordshire

Hartshill is a township within Stoke-upon-Trent in the city of Stoke-on-Trent in the English county of Staffordshire.Hartshill was developed by Herbert Minton as a dormitory suburb of Stoke. The ecclesiastical parish was created out of the parish of Stoke in 1842 when Holy Trinity church was built...

, Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent

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. Barbara Andrew also has a long history of voluntary work on behalf of the community.

Monographs

• Writers & Society During the Rise of Russian Realism, (Macmillan, 1980), xv + 190pp.
• Russian Writers & Society in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century, (Macmillan, 1982), xvii+ 238 pp.
• Women in Russian Literature: 1780-1863, (Macmillan, 1988),206 pp.
• Narrative & Desire in Russian Literature, 1822-1849: The Feminine and the Masculine (Macmillan 1993), viii + 257pp
• Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction, 1846-1903, Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York, 2007, viii + 195 pp.

Single Authored Research Translation

• Russian Women's Shorter Fiction. An Anthology, 1835-1860 (translated and introduced, OUP, 1996), xvii + 469pp.

Single Edited Books

• The Structural Analysis of Russian Narrative Fiction, (EIP Publications, 1984) ed. & intro., xxix + 165 pp.
• Poetics of the Text: Essays to Celebrate Twenty Years of the Neo-Formalist Circle (ed., and intro., Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1992), xx + 213pp.

Co-edited Books

• Literary Tradition & Practice in Russian Culture (Papers from an International Conference on the Occasion of the Seventieth Birthday of Yury Mikhailovich Lotman. Edited with Valentina Polukhina & Robert Reid : Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1993), xii + 341 pp.
• Structure & Tradition in Russian Society. (Papers from an International Conference on the Occasion of the Seventieth Birthday of Yury Mikhailovich Lotman. Edited with Robert Reid & Valentina Polukhina: Slavica Helsingiensia 14, Helsinki, 1994), viii + 186 pp
• Essays in Honour of Yury Lotman (Russian Literature Special Number I. Edited with Robert Reid & Valentina Polukhina), Russian Literature, XXXVI-III, October, 1994, pp. 243–369.
• Essays in Honour of Yury Lotman (Russian Literature Special Issue II. Edited with Robert Reid & Valentina Polukhina), Russian Literature, XXXVI-IV, November, 1994, pp. 371–434.
• Neo-Formalist Papers. (edited with Robert Reid: Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1998), xi + 337pp. (ISBN 90-420-0631-5).
• Why Europe? Problems of Culture & Identity. Volume 1: Political and Historical Dimensions (edited with Malcolm Crook & Michael Waller: Macmillan, Houndmills, 2000), xi + 204pp. (0-312-22793-0).
• Why Europe? Problems of Culture & Identity. Volume 2: Media, Film, Gender, Youth & Education (edited with Malcolm Crook, Diana Holmes & Eva Kolinsky: Macmillan, Houndmills, 2000), xiii + 297pp. (0-312-22794-0).
• Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. Volume 1: ‘Pushkin’s Secret’: Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin, edited with Robert Reid, Rodopi, Amsterdam-New York, 2003, xi + 213 pp. (90-420-0884-9)
• Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. Volume 2: Alexander Pushkin: Myth and Monument, edited with Robert Reid, Rodopi, Amsterdam-New York, 2003, x + 211 pp. (90-420-1135-1)
• Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. Volume 3: Pushkin’s Legacy, edited with Robert Reid, Rodopi, Amsterdam-New York, 2004, x + 228 pp. (90-420-0958-6)
• Gogol 2002. Volume 1: Gogol and Others, edited with Robert Reid, Essays in Poetics Publications, Volume 8, 2003, ii + 220 pp.
• Gogol 2002. Volume 2: Aspects of Gogol , edited with Robert Reid, Essays in Poetics Publications, Volume 9, 2004, iv + 181 pp. ISBN 09509080 8 8
• Chekhov 2004. Volume 1: Aspects of Chekhov, edited with Robert Reid, Essays in Poetics Publications, Volume 10, 2005, v + 253 pp. ISBN 09509080 9 6
• Chekhov 2004. Volume 2: Chekhov and Others, edited with Robert Reid, Essays in Poetics Publications, Volume 11, 2006, vi + 368 pp. ISBN 0-9553138-0-5
• Turgenev and Russian Culture. Essays to Honour Richard Peace, edited with Derek Offord and Robert Reid, Rodopi, Amsterdam-New York, 2008, 372 pp. (978-90-420-2399-4)

Co-Translated Books

• The Futurists, the Formalists & the Marxist Critique (Ink Links, 1979): translated with C.R.Pike. 259 pp