Martin Dewhirst
Martin Dewhirst has lectured on Russian language and literature at the University of Glasgow since 1964. He is particularly interested in twentieth century Russian literature and has compiled many bibliographies on the subject for The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. He has worked periodically on the Samizdat staff of Radio Liberty in Munich and is also a specialist on Soviet censorship and archives. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Open Society Archives at the Central European University in Budapest. He is also a translator and interpreter and a specialist on Soviet dissent. Recently he was a judge for the Booker Russian Novel Prize Committee. He is on the editorial board of East European Jewish Affairs and Birmingham Slavonic Monographs. He has an active interest in the Soviet and post-Soviet theatre and cinema. He is a member of the Library Committee of the Britain-Russia Centre and is the representative of this Centre for the West of Scotland. His favourite Russian writers are Dostoevskii, Chekhov and Solzhenitsyn. Martin took early retirement in September 2000, but maintains his research interests. He was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in October 2000.