Joe Andrew (academic)
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Joe Andrew | |
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| Born | 1 June 1948 Derby, Derbyshire, England |
| Education | Bemrose Grammar School, Derby, University College, Oxford, Wolfson College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Professor of russian literature at keele university |
| Spouse | Barbara |
Joe Andrew (born Joseph Matthew Andrew, 1 June 1948) is a British academic whose main research interests are 19th-century Russian literature, feminist approaches to literature, and women writers.[1][2]
Andrew is Professor of Russian Literature at Keele University.[3] His publishing history includes 24 books (monographs, single authored research translations, single edited books, co-edited books, and co-translated books), 61 articles (single authored articles in refereed journals, single authored chapters in books, and co-authored chapters in books), 57 translations, and 58 reviews.
Joe Andrew was born in Derby, where he attended Bemrose School. He came from a non-intellectual, Roman Catholic, middle-class family.[4] He won a scholarship to study at University College, Oxford, and, in 1969, he was awarded a first-class honours degree in Modern languages.
In 1971, whilst researching the history of the Russian literary language at Wolfson College, Oxford, Andrew joined the recently formed 'Neo-Formalist Circle'. His membership of the Circle, and his interest in Russian formalism, has continued to the present- day.[5]
Academic career
Joe Andrew was appointed lecturer in Russian studies at Keele University 1972. He became a senior lecturer in 1989 and reader in 1993. In 1995, he was elevated to professor.
Andrew's teaching has included courses on Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev and women in Russian literature. He has delivered 70 invited lectures & conference papers all around the world.
Joe Andrew, and his departmental colleague Chris Pike, began organising the Neo-Formalist Circle from Keele University in the mid-1970s. This led to a "considerable consolidation of the Neo-Formalist Circle, to the extent that it is now very much a fixture on the British and international academic scenes"[6] The Circle's twice-a-year journal Essays in Poetics first appeared in April 1976 and was edited by Andrew and Pike. In 1990, Robert Reid replaced Pike as both the Circle's co-chair and the journal's joint editor. Andrew remained Chair and joint editor until 2006.
During Andrew's leadership of the Neo-Formalist Circle it has organised several special conferences, on literary figures such as Chekhov, Gogol, Platonov and Pushkin. These conferences have led to the publication of a number of edited volumes.[2][5]
