Catriona Kelly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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British academic specialising in Russian culture
Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1959
Place of Birth: United Kingdom
Profession: historian
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Catriona Kelly
- Catriona Helen Moncrieff Kelly, FBA (born 6 October 1959) is a British academic specialising in Russian culture.
- She is Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College.. Catriona Kelly was brought up in London.
- Her parents were Alexander Kelly (pianist) and cellist Margaret Moncrieff.
- Her sister is the cellist Alison Moncrieff-Kelly and she is married to neuroscientist Professor Ian Thompson .
- Her grandfather was Alexander Moncrieff and Hope Mirlees was her mother's first cousin.
- She was educated at the school in London run by the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion (1969-1970) and at Godolphin and Latymer School (1970-1977).
- After spending six months living in Vienna, she read Russian and German at the University of Oxford, including a year (1980-1981) as a visiting student at Voronezh State University, USSR, sponsored by the British Council.
- She went on to complete a doctorate on the Russian poet Innokenty Annensky at Oxford (1985). She was a Senior Scholar and Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford (1983-1993) and then Lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (1993-1996) , before taking up her present position at the University of Oxford and New College .
- Catriona Kelly is the author of many books about Russian history and culture, including Petrushka, the Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1990), A History of Russian Women's Writing (Oxford University Press, 1994), Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin (Oxford University Press, 2001),Russian Literature, A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2001),Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero (Granta Books, 2005/Moscow, 2009), a study of the boy hero Pavlik Morozov, St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past (Yale University Press, 2014), Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988, and articles for professional journals and for the general press .
- She is the editor of Utopias: Russian Modernism, 1905-1940 (Penguin, 1999) and (with Stephen Lovell) of Russian Modernism and the Visual Arts (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
- In 2015, Catriona Kelly was President of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the first person working at a university outside the United States to be appointed to this position.
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