Grace Docherty

I’m a second-year PhD researcher in Russian, awarded an AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities. My thesis, ‘The Role of Objects and Agency in Late Imperial Russian Detective Fiction,’ analyses early Russian detective fiction texts from new materialist and posthumanist perspectives. My research challenges anthropocentric conceptions of authority actors, thereby reshaping contemporary approaches to detective fiction and literary studies.

My cross-institutional, cross-disciplinary supervisory team includes Dr Claire Whitehead (Russian, University of St Andrews), Dr John Harries (Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh), and Dr Herve Menard (Forensic Science, University of Dundee).

I completed my MSt in Modern Languages Russian with Distinction at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford in 2020 and my MA (Hons) in International Relations and Russian With Integrated Year Abroad at the University of St Andrews in 2019.