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Rebecca Beasley is Professor of Modernist Studies and Tutorial Fellow in English at The Queen's College, University of Oxford, where she has taught since 2009 after prior appointments at Queen Mary University of London, University of Liverpool, and Birkbeck College. Her expertise spans Victorian to contemporary literature with specialized focus on modernist movements, visual culture intersections, and transnational literary networks.
Her academic background includes:
- BA in English from University of Cambridge
- MA from University of California, Berkeley
- PhD from University of Cambridge (focused on Ezra Pound)
Professor Beasley's research centers on Anglo-American modernism and Russian cultural influences on British literature, examining how translation, periodical culture, and institutional frameworks shaped modernist aesthetics. Her work bridges literary analysis with cultural history to explore cross-border artistic exchanges and the socio-political dimensions of modernist innovation.
Publication trends reveal an evolution from early studies of Pound's visual aesthetics toward comprehensive investigations of Russian-British cultural transfer, culminating in her award-winning monograph Russomania (2020). This trajectory highlights her methodological shift from author-centric criticism to network-based analysis of modernism's global entanglements.
Her scholarly recognition includes:
- Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
- AHRC Research Fellowship
- British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Women's Forum Prize
Professor Beasley has supervised sixteen doctoral candidates to completion with research spanning modernist poetics, translation theory, and cultural history, while securing major grants for collaborative projects like the Anglo-Russian Research Network (2011-2019). She currently mentors students on Virginia Woolf, avant-garde theatre, and global modernisms while directing Oxford's MSt programs and serving as general editor for Edinburgh University Press's modernist studies series.
She co-founded the Anglo-Russian Research Network and contributes to editorial boards of Modernist Cultures and Textual Practice, maintaining active leadership in the British Association for Modernist Studies and Oxford's Modern and Contemporary Research Seminar.
