Peter Budrin

Dr. Peter Budrin is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on Soviet intellectual history, particularly the intersection of state policy and literary institutions during the 1930s. He holds a PhD in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

His work examines the transformation of Soviet literary criticism through the lens of institutions like the Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History (IFLI), and explores the reception of Laurence Sterne’s works in Soviet Russia. Key projects include an upcoming monograph analyzing Sterne’s influence on Soviet literary canon formation and a co-edited journal cluster on early Soviet translations of English literature.

Budrin’s research has been published in venues such as The Slavic and East European Journal and Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie. He has also contributed to public-facing initiatives like Gorky Media, bridging academic scholarship with broader cultural discourse.