Margarita Vaysman
Dr · Oxford Missing Departments (2026-08-14) · University of Oxford
Quick answer: Margarita Vaysman is Dr at University of Oxford. Margarita Vaysman shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ She welcomes postgraduate applications for MPhil and DPhil projects and supervision on the topics of history of gender and sexuality in Russia and Ukraine, nineteenth-century Russophone literature, Realist novel, and narrative, gender and queer theory.
Research interests
literary texts, primarily the Realist novel, and history of gender and sexuality. Her first monograph Self-Conscious Realism: Metafiction and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel explores instances of literary self-consciousness – a narrative technique that forces readers to be aware that they are reading a work of fiction – in Russian literature. She is now co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, as well as working on a second monograph, provisionally titled A Brave Life: Queer and Transgender Erasure in Russian Culture. This investigation spans the period from the early days of the Russian Empire to present day Russia, where homo- and transphobic state rhetoric co-exists with a vibrant drag culture and successful activist interventions.
Selected publications (since 2023)
Vaysman, Margarita. 2023. “‘I Became a Man in a Military Camp’: Negotiating a Transmasculine Identity in Aleksandr Aleksandrov (Nadezhda Durova)’s Personal Documents and Literary Fiction’, AvtobiografiЯ, 11, 33-63.
Vaysman, Margarita. 2023. ‘The Trouble with Queer Celebrity: Aleksandr Aleksandrov (Nadezhda Durova)’s A Year of Life in St Petersburg (1838)’, Modern Language Review, 118.1, 97-113.
Vaysman, Margarita. 2023. Review of Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic, by Katherine Bowers. Slavonic and Eastern European Review, 1, 157-159.
Vaysman, Margarita. 2022. Review of Stsenarii peremen: Uvarovskaia nagrada i evoliutsiia russkoi dramaturgii v epokhu Aleksandra II, by Kirill Zubkov. Modern Language Review, 117, 729-30.
Vaysman, Margarita. 2022. Review of How Women Must Write:
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Is Margarita Vaysman hiring PhD students at University of Oxford?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Margarita Vaysman's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: She welcomes postgraduate applications for MPhil and DPhil projects and supervision on the topics of history of gender and sexuality in Russia and Ukraine, nineteenth-century Russophone literature, Re.
What does Margarita Vaysman research?
literary texts, primarily the Realist novel, and history of gender and sexuality. Her first monograph Self-Conscious Realism: Metafiction and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel explores instances of literary self-consciousness – a narrative technique that forces readers to be aware that they are r
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