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John McNair

John McNair is Russian Discipline Convener in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. His current research interests focus on Australian–Russian cultural contacts and the travel narratives of Australians in Russia.

Works published on this site

Articles

• Between revolutions: an Australian view of Russia in 1917
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 25, Nos. 1–2 (2011)

Reviews

• Graeme P. Herd, Paul Dukes, Jarmo Kotilaine, Stuarts and Romanovs: the rise and fall of a special relationship (2009)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 25, Nos. 1–2 (2011)
• Colm McKeogh, Tolstoy’s pacifism (2009)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 25, Nos. 1–2 (2011)
• Jostein Børtnes, The poetry of prose: readings in Russian literature (2007)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 24, Nos. 1–2 (2010)
• J. Douglas Clayton, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: poetics, hermeneutics, thematics (2006)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 24, Nos. 1–2 (2010)
• Katya Hokanson, Writing at Russia’s border (2008)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 23, Nos. 1–2 (2009)
• Jeff Love, Tolstoy: a guide for the perplexed (2008)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 23, Nos. 1–2 (2009)
• Catriona Kelly, Children’s world: growing up in Russia, 1890–1991 (2008)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 22, Nos. 1–2 (2008)
• Ilya Kutik, Writing as exorcism: the personal codes of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol (2004)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 22, Nos. 1–2 (2008)
• David Powelstock, Becoming Mikhail Lermontov: the ironies of Romantic Individualism in Nicholas I’s Russia (2005)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 21, Nos. 1–2 (2007)
• Mark Swift, Biblical subtexts and religious themes in works of Anton Chekhov (2003)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 21, Nos. 1–2 (2007)
• William J. Leatherbarrow, A devil’s vaudeville: the demonic in Dostoevsky’s major fiction (2005)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 20, Nos. 1–2 (2006)
• Jeff Love, The overcoming of history in War and Peace (2004)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 19, Nos. 1–2 (2005)
• Liza Knapp, Amy Mandelker, Approaches to teaching Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (2003)
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 18, Nos. 1–2 (2004)

Obituaries

• In memoriam Boris Christa
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 22, Nos. 1–2 (2008)

Translations

• Lachlan Macquarie in Russia
  by Aleksandr Massov
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 22, Nos. 1–2 (2008)
• The visit of the Russian sloop Neva to Sydney in 1807: 200 years of Russian–Australian contacts
  by Aleksandr Massov
  in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 20, Nos. 1–2 (2006)

Cited works

Books

• Encounters under the Southern Cross: two centuries of Russian–Australian relations 1807–2007
• Russia and the fifth continent: aspects of Russian–Australian relations