Member profiles

This page contains the contact details and areas of work and research of members of COSEELIS.  [Please note that e-mail addresses have been re-formatted to avoid spam; please copy the address and replace the central “>АТ<” element with the usual @ symbol.]

BACH, Mel

Sitting down with Frantsysk Skaryna

Collections and Academic Liaison
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DR
Tel: 01223 333081
Email: slavonic >АТ< lib.cam.ac.uk

Professional responsibilities: Head of Department and Slavonic/East European specialist;
responsible for material in all Slavonic languages (chiefly Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian) and others (non-Slavic material from countries previously in the Eastern Bloc, plus modern Greek)

Personal/research interests: Russian detective fiction, Soviet nostalgia.

Website: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/slavonic-collections

BRĂDEANU, Adina
Romanian Language, Literature and Area Studies Subject Consultant
Taylor Institution Library, Bodleian Libraries,
University of Oxford, St. Giles’,
Oxford OX1 3NA
Email: adina.bradeanu>АТ< bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Website: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/taylor/

Professional responsibilities: I am responsible for all material in Romanian language

Adina Bradeanu

(Literature, Language, History, and Social sciences). I manage the Romanian collection, liaise with publishers and vendors, select the titles for acquisition, advise the researchers and students working on Romania-related topics, devise and take part in various engagement programmes. Currently I am developing a project which combines linguistic research with tools and methods from Digital Humanities, based on a body of historical audio material held at the Taylor Institution Library.

Personal/research interests: I hold a passion for documentary cinema. I studied the professional culture of a documentary film studio whose production is an essential part of Romania’s audio-visual heritage (‘Alexandru Sahia’, 1950-1980) and I curated a DVD series on the production of that studio (VINTAGE SAHIA, vols. I-IV). I co-program a human rights documentary festival in Bucharest (One World Romania).

CAMFIELD, Graham
Personal member
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Personal/research interests: Life and work of Prince D. A. Khilkov, Tolstoyism, and Russian sectarianism.

DAVIES, Richard
Leeds Russian Archive,
Brotherton Library,
University of Leeds,
Leeds, W Yorks,
LS2 9JT
Tel:  0113 343 3289
Email: r.d.davies@leeds.ac.uk
Website: http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-leeds-russian-archive

Personal/research interests: Russian history, literature, culture (C19th-C20th) (particularly Leonid Andreev (1871-1919)), Russian émigré culture (C20th ) (particularly Ivan Bunin (1870-1953)), Russian émigré archives, Anglo-Russian relations and contacts (C19th-C20th).

GIBSON, Angelina
Slavonic and Eurasian subject consultant
Bodleian Libraries
University of Oxford
Tel: 01865 271937 (SSL)
Email: angelina.gibson >АТ< bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Website: http://ox.libguides.com/content.php?pid=152328

Professional responsibilities: Slavonic and Eurasian subject consultant for history, social sciences and geography (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Former Soviet Union, Eurasia, CIS, Bulgaria, general works on Central and Eastern Europe)
Personal/research interests: Screenwriting .

HALSTEAD (Reynolds), Susan
Research Services

Susan Halstead

The British Library
96 Euston Rd
London NW1 2DB
Tel: 0207 412 7588
Email: Susan.Halstead@ bl.uk

Professional responsibilities: Subject Librarian (Social Sciences); former Curator of Czech, Slovak & Lusatian. Conducting focus groups to assist researchers and other library users to make the best use of the collections, making material available on the British Library’s Social Welfare Portal, and interacting with libraries and academic institutions; co-editing the British Library’s European Studies blog.

Personal/research interests: Czech and Slovak language, literature and culture, especially music, from mediaeval times to the 21^st century; translation studies; Czech contacts with other literatures and cultures, especially German, French, Russian and Scandinavian.

HEARN, Nick
Russian and Slavonic Subject Specialist
Taylor Institution Library
St Giles
Oxford
OX1 3NA
Tel: 01865 278159
Email: nick.hearn>АТ< bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/taylor 

Professional responsibilities: Subject specialist responsible for Russian Language and Literature (as well as the languages and literatures of Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Macedonia)
Personal/research interests: Saint Petersburg; contemporary Russian literature; Russian art and film

JANIK, Wojciech
Assistant Librarian, Area Specialist for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Eurasia
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library
University College London
16 Taviton Street
London WC1H 0BW
Email.: w.janik@ucl.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/library 
Professional responsibilities: Area Specialist responsible for development of the Library’s collections on the countries of former Soviet Union.
Personal/research interests: none given

McMANUS, Damien
Subject Librarian
Arts and Social Sciences Library
University of Bristol
Tyndall Avenue
Bristol
BS8 1TJ
Email: damien<AT>mcmanus bristol.ac.uk
Personal/research interests: none given.

PINDER, Maureen

Maureen Pinder

Personal member
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Email: m.j.pinder@bradford.ac.uk
Personal/research interests: none given.

PITMAN, Lesley
Personal member
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Personal/research interests: none given. 

ROGATCHEVSKAIA, Ekaterina

Katya Rogatchevskaia

European and Americas Collections
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Tel: 020 7412 7587
Email: katya.rogatchevskaia@bl.uk
European Studies blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/european/
Twitter: @BL_European

Professional responsibilities:  Lead Curator of Central and East European collections, selecting monographs, serials, electronic resources and other materials published in the RF in other countries on subjects, such as Russian and Soviet Studies, Russian history and Slavonic Studies, maintaining and developing links with suppliers, cultural institutions and universities in the UK and abroad, dealing with inquiries, promoting the collections for the British HE and the general public via various engagement activities, and raising awareness of the collections at a national and international level by researching the collections, publishing, blogging and participating in conferences and public programmes

Personal/research interests: Medieval Russian literature, Émigré literature of the 1^st wave, Russian émigré and Diaspora publications, History of the Russian collection at the BL, publishing and information policy in Russia.

The Cyrillic and I [at The National Library of Russia in Saint-Petersburg]

SMITH-MESA, Vladimir Alexander
Position:  Cataloguer
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library
University College London
16 Taviton Street
London WC1H 0BW
Tel:  + 44 (0) 20 7679 8711
Email: v.a.smithmesa@ucl.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/staff/staff-news/August/10082016-spotlightonVladimirSmithMesa
Twitter: @thevlado

Professional responsibilities: Cataloguer of UCL SSEES Library’s Russian and audio-visual collections.

Personal/research interests: Film, Cultural and Post-Colonial Studies. Comparative studies on the moving image and the Arts in general, focused on the Soviet period in relation to the Americas.

TAMAMOVIC, Suzana
Area Specialist for South East Europe
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library
University College London
16 Taviton Street
London WC1H 0BW
Email: s.tamamovic@ucl.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/library

Professional responsibilities: Area Specialist responsible for the UCL SSEES Library’s collections on South East Europe, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, also Greece and Turkey.

Personal/research interests: fine art

WARREN, Isabella
Personal member
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Personal/research interests: history of collection; music.

WALKER, Gregory Dr
Personal Member

Gregory Walker

Email: gpmwalker >АТ< btinternet.com

Personal/research interests: Editor, UTREES (University Theses in Russian and East European Studies), an online bibliographical database supported by the Modern Humanities Research association (MHRA)

WOLLNER, Ildi

The British Library
96 Euston Rd
London NW1 2DB
Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7583
Email: ildiko.wollner  >АТ<  bl.uk
website: www.bl.uk
European Studies blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/european/
Twitter: @BL_European

Professional responsibilities: curator of Central/Eastern European Collections, with a focus on Hungarian. Role in a large scale library-wide digitisation project.

Personal/research interests: BL collections on the 1956 Hungarian revolution; the István Nagy collection in the BL.

ZMROCZEK, Janet

Janet Zmroczek

European and Americas Collections
The British Library
96 Euston Rd
London NW1 2DB
Tel: 0207 412 7586
Email: janet.zmroczek >АТ< bl.uk

Professional responsibilities: Head of European Collections and Americas Collections; Large-scale digitisation projects; European library cooperation.
Personal/research interests: Polish émigré publishing in 19^th century Britain; history of the BL Polish and Baltic collections; history and cultures of Central Asia.