Frances Nethercott

Biography

Frances Nethercott teach the history of modern Russia, from the age of Peter the Great to the late twentieth century, and offer both survey courses covering the late Imperial and Soviet eras as well as more specialized, source-based, honours modules on, for example, the Russian intelligentsia, Russian perceptions of Western Europe, Russian historical culture in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He also contribute to taught postgraduate modules in Central and East European Studies, and sub-honours team-taught modules in modern West European and American historiography.

Research Interest

Frances Nethercott research interests fall within Russian cultural and intellectual history. He was particularly fascinated by the phenomenon of the cultural transmission of ideas across borders, which, to date, has framed most of the research projects He have undertaken, whether single-handed or in collaboration with colleagues in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, and Russia. Currently, though, He was working on the place of creative literature in Russian nineteenth and twentieth-century historiography. This is a two-volume study, which explores the ways historians used creative literature as means both to enhance their narratives, but also as a resource, of sorts, in historical enquiry itself.