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Dr Kevin Windle

Kevin Windle, Reader, Head of School in 2003-04, teaches Translation Studies and Russian. His research interests include modern Russian and Polish literature, Slavonic lexicography and Translation Studies. Since 2001 he has been working with Prof. David Lovell (Australian Defence Force Academy) on the documentary records of the Third International and its links with the Communist Party of Australia.

 

Recent translations include:

Sergey Aksakov, Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler, (with translator’s introduction xi-xxi). Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 1998. 304 pp. (from the Russian)

Andrzej Drawicz, The Master and the Devil: A Study of Mikhail Bulgakov. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter, 2001. (xxiv + 352 pp.). (from the Polish)

Bernhard Maier, The Celts: A History from Earliest Times to the Present, Edinburgh University Press, 2003. 310 pp. (from the German)

Joachim Latacz, Troia und Homer: Der Weg zur Lösung eines alten Rätsels [Troy and Homer: Towards the Solution of an old Problem], with Rosh Ireland. Oxford University Press, 2004. 350 pp. (from the German)

(with Marian Hill) Augusto Fraschetti, The Foundation of Rome, Edinburgh University Press, 2005. 178 pp. (from the Italian)

(with Marian Hill) Luciano Canfora, Julius Caesar: The People’s Dictator, Edinburgh University Press and University of California Press, 2007. 408 pp. (from the Italian)

 

Recent articles include:

“Zametki o sovremennom sostoianii makedonsko-russkoi leksikografii”, [Notes on Contemporary Macedonian-Russian Lexicography], Voprosy iazykoznaniia, No. 3, 2001. 40-49

“Some Allusions and Interlingual Elements in Bulgakov’s Flight. An Affirmation of russkost’?”, New Zealand Slavonic Journal, Vol. 35, 2001, 191-197.

“Hunters’ Notes: Ornithology and Cultural Attitudes in Russian Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”, Russian Studies in Literature, Summer 2003, 25-47.

“Gogol and British History: His Play Alfred and its Critical Reception”, Essays in Poetics, Autumn 2003. Vol. 28, Gogol Special Issue, pp. 1-11.

“Round the World for the Revolution: A Bolshevik agent’s mission to Australia 1920-22 and his interrogation by Scotland Yard”, Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 17, No. 2, December 2004, 90-118.

“Zhurnalist i revoliutsioner na trekh kontinentakh: A. M. Zuzenko.” [A Journalist and Revolutionary on Three Continents: A. M. Zuzenko], Tynianovskii sbornik, No. 12, 2006, pp. 452-468.

“A Troika of Agitators: Three Comintern Liaison Agents in Australia, 1920-22”, The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 52, No. 1, 2006, pp. 30-47.

“Orpheus Down Under: Fragments by A. N. Tolstoi on the career of Captain Zuzenko. Translation and commentary”, Slavonica, Vol. 12, No. 2, November 2006, pp. 91-105.

“Russia in 1908: the view from Manila. Teodoro Kalaw’s Hacia la tierra del Zar”, in Iberian and Slavonic Cultures: Contact and Comparison, ed. by Beata Cieszynska, CompaRes, Lisbon 2007, pp. 114-126