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Dr John Bates is a Lecturer in Polish at the School of Modern Languages & Cultures, University of Glasgow, where he has been actively engaged in teaching and research. His academic focus lies at the intersection of censorship, Polish literature, and media studies, with a particular expertise in the Communist era and its cultural legacies in Poland.
His research interests encompass Censorship Studies, Polish Literature, Contemporary Polish Media, Translation Studies, Migration Studies, and Central and Eastern European Studies. Dr Bates has made significant contributions to understanding the mechanisms of censorship under Communist rule, especially in literature and translation, and has recently expanded his work to analyze representations of migrants in Polish and British television series.
Analysis of Dr Bates' publication record reveals a sustained investigation into censorship in Poland from the Stalinist period through the post-1989 transition. His work consistently bridges literary analysis with historical and political context, examining how ideology shaped cultural production. In recent years, he has increasingly focused on media representations, particularly in television, reflecting a broader interest in contemporary cultural narratives and national identity formation.
Dr Bates has supervised a number of doctoral and master's students, including:
- Sam Beaton (PhD, Czech documentary cinema, co-supervised)
- Metodi Metodiev (PhD, Relations between writers and politicians in Bulgaria and Czech Republic, co-supervised)
- Kirsteen Anderson (PhD, Post-communist reforms of the Czech Educational System, co-supervised)
- Paul Vickers (PhD, memoirs of rural inhabitants of Poland’s recovered territories, co-supervised)
- James Alan Cathro Smith (MPhil, Czech popular music, co-supervised)
- Jitka Perinova (PhD, novels of Emil Hakl and Jan Balaban, co-supervised)
- Albin Sybera (PhD, political and cultural discourse in post-communist Czech Republic, co-supervised)
- Izabela Rudzka (MPhil, Deleuzian reading of spatial dependencies)
His research has been supported by competitive grants from The Carnegie Trust (2014-15), the European Social Fund and Czech Republic (2012-2014), and the British Academy (2011-2012), which funded projects on translation, literary discourses, and national mythologies in Central European television.
