Dr Rosamund Bartlett
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Position
Royal Literary Fund Fellow
Qualifications
BA (Durham), DPhil (Oxford)
Background
Rosamund Bartlett is a non-fiction writer best known for her biographies, Chekhov: Scenes from a Life (Free Press, 2004) and Tolstoy: A Russian Life (Profile, 2010), which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She is also an acclaimed translator. Her editions of Chekhov’s About Love and Other Stories and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, for which she also wrote the introductions and notes, are published by Oxford World’s Classics. She is the editor and co-translator of Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters for Penguin Classics, and is co-editor of Chekhov's Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880–1882, forthcoming in 2025 with Cherry Orchard Books.
As a cultural historian, Rosamund’s writing ranges across disciplines, and is fuelled by a desire to find connections between works of art, music and literature, placing them in historical and political context. Her doctoral thesis was the basis for her first book, Wagner and Russia (Cambridge University Press) and led to a career as an academic spanning fifteen years. Active still as a scholar, she is the editor of Shostakovich in Context (Oxford University Press) and co-editor of Victory over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera (Exeter University Press) for which she also completed an annotated translation of the libretto. Her current book project focuses on the revolution in the arts which took place in early 20th-century Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Russian diaspora, and its connection to European modernism.
Rosamund has been commissioned to write for institutions such as the Royal Opera House and the Salzburg Festival, as well as the art magazine Apollo, and she appears regularly as a commentator for BBC Radio 3 during opera and Proms broadcasts.
She is available in Brasenose two days a week throughout term to help undergraduate and graduate students with their writing, whatever their discipline.Links
https://www.rlf.org.uk/writer/rosamund-bartlett/
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