The Song of the Mocking Bird

The Author: Alexandra Smith graduated from St. Petersburg's Herzen University and was awarded her M.Phil. and Ph.D. at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in the University of London. She taught at the University of Essex. Currently she holds a Lectureship at the University of Bristol. She is a member of the Neo-Formalist Circle and of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies. Among her publications are many articles on twentieth-century Russian authors in The Slavonic and East European Review and in Essays in Poetics. Her contribution to the Tsvetaeva Centenary Conference in Paris is published by the Université de la Sorbonne, The forthcoming revised edition of Gale's Reference Guide to Russian Literature (St. James' Press) will contain several entries on Russian authors by Dr Smith.