Neil Cornwell

Neil Cornwell is Professor Emeritus (Russian and Comparative Literature) at the University of Bristol. Having studied at SSEES (University of London) he taught at the New University of Ulster (Coleraine) and Queen’s University (Belfast). He has translated works by Odoevsky, Mayakovsky, Lermontov and Daniil Kharms. His authored books include The Literary Fantastic (1990) and The Absurd in Literature (2006), as well as works on Odoevsky, Pasternak, Pushkin, James Joyce and Nabokov. He is also the editor of Reference Guide to Russian Literature (1998).