Isobel Palmer

Dr. Isobel Palmer is a Lecturer in Russian within the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. She holds a PhD and MA from the University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures), and a BA from the University of Cambridge (Russian and German). Her research focuses on 20th-century Russian poetry and literary theory, particularly Russian Formalism, modernist performance cultures, and intersections between literature and visual arts. Current projects explore poetry's social circulation through performance and multilingualism in post-Soviet contexts. She teaches Russian language, translation, and cultural studies modules. Palmer is Co-Investigator on the BRIDGE-funded 'Russophone Literary Diversity' project and has held roles including Subject Liaison for Russian and Summer Course Tutor.

Research interests include Russian modernist poetry's relationship with urban environments, media theory, and creative communities. Recent work examines Futurist performance, post-revolutionary mediatization of poetry, and poetry readings as social spaces. Her monograph *Revolutions in Verse* (2023, Northwestern UP) analyzes Russian modernism's mediating role in revolutionary contexts. Current British Academy/Leverhulme-funded research investigates poetry performance in avant-garde and late-Soviet underground cultures.

Palmer's teaching spans undergraduate and MA levels, with supervision of final-year dissertations and practical translation students. Professional activities include organizing academic panels on media theory and literary form, and membership in ASEEES and AATSEEL. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, covering topics from Blok's prosody to postcolonial approaches to world literature.