Staff profile

Prof. Renfrew's main area of research specialization is literary and critical theory, although he has also taught and published on Russian Literature, Scottish Literature, Russian and Soviet Cinema, and is currently developing teaching and research interests on Theory and History of the Novel and on Popular music.

He has published widely on Mikhail Bakhtin and the so-called Russian Formalists, including the monograph Towards a New Material Aesthetics (Legenda, 2006) and an introduction to Bakhtin for Routledge Critical Thinkers (2015; Chinese translation 2017; Portuguese translation 2018), as well as seven edited volumes, including Critical Theory in Russia and the West (Routledge 2010; Chinese translation 2016).

He is currently completing a novel of the (Russian) nineteenth century.

Authored book

• Renfrew, A. (2014). Mikhail Bakhtin. Routledge
• Renfrew, A. (2006). Towards a New Material Aesthetics: Bakhtin, Genre and the Fates of Literary Theory. Legenda

Chapter in book

• Renfrew, A. (2016). Against Adaptation: The Strange Case of (Pod)Poruchik Kizhe. In A. Burry, & F. White (Eds.), Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film. Edinburgh University Press
• Renfrew, A. (2015). The Beginning and the End: The Formalist Paradigm in Literary Study. In J.-M. Rabaté (Ed.), 1922: Literature, Culture, Politics (145-167). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139629102.011
• Renfrew, A. (2012). Ivanovo detstvo. In E. Vasil'eva, & N. Braginskii (Eds.), Noev kovcheg russkogo kino: ot "Sten'ki Razina" do "Stiliag" (195-200). Globus-Press
• Renfrew, A. (2010). The Resurrection of a Poetics. In A. Renfrew, & G. Tihanov (Eds.), Critical Theory in Russia and the West (1-25). Routledge
• Renfrew, A. (2008). Before Learning to Speak: Genre in Tarkovsky's Earlier Features. In N. Dunne (Ed.), Tarkovsky (96-121). Black Dog Press
• Renfrew, A. (2004). [Alexander Mackay], 'MacDiarmid and Russia Revisited. In G. Carruthers, D. Goldie, & A. Renfrew (Eds.), Beyond Scotland (59-93). Rodopi
• Renfrew, A. (2004). Kul't lichnosti [A Cult of Personality]. In V. Makhlin (Ed.), Bakhtinskii sbornik V (499-509). lazyki slavianskoi kul'tury
• Renfrew, A. (1998). Eux et nous: La représentation du discours dans l'oeuvre romanesque ecossaise contemporaine. In M. Morel (Ed.), L’exil et l’allégorie dans le roman anglophone contemporain (89-102). Editions Messene
• Renfrew, A. (1998). "We Are The Real": Bakhtin and the Representation of Speech. In D. Shepherd (Ed.), The Contexts of Bakhtin (121-138). Harwood Academic Publishers
• Renfrew, A. (1997). Them and Us? Representation of Speech in contemporary Scottish Fiction. In A. Renfrew (Ed.), Exploiting Bakhtin (15-28). (New Series 2). Strathclyde Modern Language Studies
• Renfrew, A. (1997). The Carnival Without Laughter. In C. Adlam, A. Renfrew, R. Falconer, & V. Makhlin (Eds.), Face to Face: Bakhtin in Russia and the West (185-195). Sheffield Academic Press

Edited book

• Renfrew, A., Carruthers, G., & Goldie, D. (Eds.). (2012). Scotland and the Nineteenth-Century World. Rodopi
• Renfrew, A., & Tihanov, G. (Eds.). (2010). Critical Theory in Russia and the West. Routledge
• Renfrew, A., Carruthers, G., & Goldie, D. (Eds.). (2004). Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature. Rodopi
• Renfrew, A. (Ed.). (1997). Exploiting Bakhtin. University of Strathclyde
• Renfrew, A., Adlam, C., Falconer, R., & Makhlin, V. (Eds.). (1997). Face to Face: Bakhtin in Russia and the West. Sheffield Academic Press

Journal Article

• Renfrew, A. (online). Brief Encounters, Long Farewells: Bakhtin and Scottish Literature. International journal of Scottish literature,
• Renfrew, A. (online). Fakty i zhizn': O. M. Brik i sovetskaia kinoindustriia
• Renfrew, A. (2016). Lenin and Utopia. Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication, 37(2), 269-294. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3481943
• Renfrew, A. (2014). Uma Palavra Sobre a Matéria: Bakhtin e Tynianov. Conexão Letras (Impresso), 9(12), 87-111
• Renfrew, A. (2013). Facts and Life: Osip Brik in the Soviet Film Industry. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 7(2), 165-188. https://doi.org/10.1386/srsc.7.2.165_1
• Renfrew, A. (2012). The Dialectics of Parody. Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication, 33(3-4), 301-328. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-1812144
• Renfrew, A. (2007). Against Adaptation? The Strange Case of (Pod) Poruchik Kizhe. Modern Language Review, 102(1), 157-176
• Renfrew, A. (2006). A Word about Material (Bakhtin and Tynianov). Slavonic and East European Review, 84(3), 419-445
• Renfrew, A. (2003). A Cult of Personality. Slavonic and East European Review, 81(1), 88-98
• Renfrew, A. (2001). Ne vse voprosy dolzhny ostavat'sia otkrytymi. Kraine sub''ektivnye zametki o konferentsii "V otsutstvie mastera: neizvestnyi krug Bakhtina" [Not All Questions Should Remain Open: Highly Subjective Remarks on the Conference 'In the Master’s Absence: The Unknown Bakhtin Circle'. Dialog. Karnaval. Hronotop, 2, 152-157
• Renfrew, A. (2000). Russian Postmodernism. Slavonica, 6(1), 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1179/sla.2000.6.1.92

Other (Print)

• Renfrew, A. (2008). Kryl'ia kholopa
• Renfrew, A. (2003). Why We're All Theorists Now