Dr Philip Ross Bullock, MA, MSt, DPhil (BA Durham), studied at the universities of Durham and Oxford, and has worked at the University of Wales, Bangor, and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London. He held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford, and was Edward T. Cone Member in Music Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in 2007. He returned to Wadham College – where he completed his DPhil and was also organ scholar – in 2007.

Research Interests
I am currently examining the relationship between words and music in Russian culture from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. My specific focus is on the literary, musical and cultural history of art-song in Russia, but I have also published on Soviet opera. I continue to work on the prose writing of the early-Soviet period, particularly Andrei Platonov and Isaak Babel′. My main areas of methodological expertise include theories of gender and sexuality, and I am also exploring the reception of Russian culture in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Britain (I have just completed a monograph on the pioneering critic and translator, Rosa Newmarch).

Books

• Rosa Newmarch and Russian Music in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century England, Royal Musical Association Monographs: 18 (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming 2009)
• The Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov (London: Legenda, 2005)

Articles

• ‘Chamber Music and Song’, in Rosamund Bartlett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Russian Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
• ‘The Composer’s Voice, the Post’s Echo: Monologic Verse or Dialogic Song?’, in Pauline Fairclough (ed.), Shostakovich Studies 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
• ‘Future Imperfect: The Post-Revolutionary Novel and the Metaphysics of Utopia’. in Evgeny Dobrenko and Marina Balina (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
• ‘“Lessons in Sensibility”: Rosa Newmarch, Music Appreciation and the Aesthetic Cultivation of the Self’, Yearbook of English Studies (forthcoming 2010)
• ‘Andrei Platonov’s Happy Moscow: Tolstoi, Stalin and the Soviet Self’, in Marina Balina and Evgeny Dobrenko (eds), Happiness Soviet Style (London: Anthem Press, forthcoming 2009)
• ‘The Cruel Art of Beauty: Walter Pater and the Uncanny Aestheticism of Isaak Babel’s Red Cavalry’, Modern Language Review, 104/2 (2009), 499-529
• Eloquent Speech and Articulate Silence: The Queerness of Tchaikovsky’s Songs’, 19th-Century Music, 32/1 (2008), 94-128
• ‘The Pushkin Anniversary of 1937 and Russian Art Song in the Soviet Union’, Slavonica, 13/1 (2007), 39-56  [Details]
• ‘Staging Stalinism: The Search for Soviet Opera in the 1930s’, Cambridge Opera Journal, 18/1 (2006), 83-108
• ‘The Songs of Sergei Prokofiev: Texts and Contexts, Imitations and Interrogations’, Three Oranges, 11 (2006), 17-22
• ‘Andrei Platonov’s Happy Moscow: Stalinist Kitsch and Ethical Decadence’, Modern Language Review, 101/1 (2006), 201-11, translated as ‘Padenie v upadnichestvo: Schastlivaia Moskva i literaturnyi stil′ mezhdu etikoi i estetikoi’ in E. I. Kolesnikova (ed.), Tvorchestvo A. Platonova. Vypusk 4 (St Petersburg: Nauka, forthcoming) [Details]
• ‘The Musical Imagination of Andrei Platonov’, Slavonica, 10/1 (2004), 41-60
• ‘A Modern Ahasuerus: Jewish Themes in the Works of Andrei Platonov’, Essays in Poetics, 27 (2002), 139-61
• ‘Materinstvo kak metafora sploshnoi kollektivizatsii (po tvorchestvu Andreya Platonova)’, in Z. A. Khotkina, N. L. Pushkareva and E. I. Trofimova (eds), Zhenshchina, Gender, Kul’tura (Moscow: MTsGI, 1999), 312-20

Encyclopaedia Entries

• Twenty entries (including ‘Romans’, ‘Soviet Opera’, ‘Post-Soviet Opera’) in Karen Evans-Romaine, Helena Goscilo and Tatiana Smorodinskaya (eds), Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (London: Routledge, 2006)
• ‘Shostakovich and Literature’; ‘Isaak Babel′’ and ‘Konarmiia’; ‘Andrei Platonov’, ‘Kotlovan’, ‘Vozvrashchenie’, ‘Schastlivaia Moskva’ and ‘Chevengur’, in Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd (eds), The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary