Research
My primary research interest is the interplay of literature and national identity in Ukraine. I also study Soviet Russian dissident literature and Turkish nationalist literature. My broader interests include nationalism theory, human rights discourse, and problems of cultural memory. My current project is a comparative study of the role of lyric poetry in the emergence of modern European nationalisms.
I direct the Ukrainian Studies programme at Cambridge and chair the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies.
Publications
'Captive Turks: Crimean Tatars in Pan-Turkist Literature', Middle Eastern Studies 50.2 (Spring 2014)
Remembering Katyn, co-authored with Alexander Etkind, Uillieam Blacker, Julie Fedor, Simon Lewis, Maria Mälksoo and Matilda Mroz, Polity Press (2012)
'The Poetics of Home: Crimean Tatars in Nineteenth-Century Russian and Turkish Literatures', Comparative Literature Studies 49.1 (January 2012)
'Forgetting Nothing, Forgetting No One: Boris Chichibabin, Viktor Nekipelov, and the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars', Modern Language Review106.4 (September 2011)
'Nationalism and the Lyric; or, How Taras Shevchenko Speaks to Compatriots Dead, Living, and Unborn', Slavonic and East European Review 89: 1 (January 2011)
Publications (from Symplectic)
2024 (Accepted for publication)
2019
2014
Finnin, R., 2014. Captive Turks: Crimean Tatars in Pan-Turkist Literature Middle Eastern Studies, v. 50Doi: 10.1080/00263206.2013.870897
2012
Finnin, RE., 2012. The Poetics of Home: Crimean Tatars in Nineteenth-Century Russian and Turkish Literatures Comparative Literature Studies, v. 492011
Finnin, RE., 2011. Nationalism and the Lyric; or, How Taras Shevchenko Speaks to Compatriots Dead, Living, and Unborn The Slavonic and East European Review, Finnin, RE., 2011. Forgetting Nothing, Forgetting No One: Boris Chichibabin, Viktor Nekipelov, and the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Modern Language Review, v. 1062008
2007
2005
2012 (No publication date)
Finnin, RE., 2012 (No publication date). Solidarity and Its Poetics: How a Stalinist Atrocity Resounds in Three Literatures of the Black Sea 