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Professor Alastair Renfrew serves as Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, with contact details including email alastair.renfrew2@durham.ac.uk and telephone +44 (0) 191 33 43821. His institutional affiliation is clearly documented through university-hosted profile pages and publication records.
Renfrew specializes in literary and critical theory with deep expertise in Mikhail Bakhtin and Russian Formalism, evidenced by his monograph Towards a New Material Aesthetics (2006) and the Routledge Critical Thinkers volume on Bakhtin (2015). His research extends to Russian Literature, Scottish Literature, Russian and Soviet Cinema, and emerging interests in the Theory and History of the Novel alongside Popular music studies, reflecting a consistent interdisciplinary approach bridging Eastern and Western critical traditions.
Analysis of his recent publications reveals sustained engagement with Bakhtinian concepts across literary and cinematic contexts, particularly in adaptation studies (e.g., Kizhe adaptations) and Soviet cultural history. His work demonstrates recurring themes of parody, utopian thought in Lenin, and the formalist paradigm, often examining Tarkovsky's films as intersections of narrative theory and political ideology. This output consistently connects Russian theoretical frameworks with broader Western critical discourse.
