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Professor Emerita
- Russian Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail fiona.bjorlingslav.luse
Phone +46 46 222 47 87
Room SOL:L608
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Editorships (4)
- Björling, F. & Pereswetoff-Morath, A. (2005). (Eds.) Words, Deeds and Values : The Intelligentsia in Russia and Poland during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Slavica Lundensia, 22. Lund University.
- Pereswetoff-Morath, A. & Björling, F. (2002). (Eds.) The Intelligentsias of Russia and Poland : The Intelligentsia as Creators of Social Values in Russia and Poland during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries : Abstracts from the Conference Held at Lund University, August 22–25, 2002. Slavica Lundensia supplementa, 1.
- Björling, F. (2001). (Eds.) On the Verge : Russian Thought between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Century. Slavica Lundensia, 21. Dept. of Slavonic Studies, Lund University.
- Björling, F. (1999). (Eds.) Through a glass darkly : cultural representations in the dialogue between Central, Eastern and Western Europe. Slavica Lundensia, 19. Lunds universitet, Slaviska institutionen.
Articles (2)
- Björling, F. (2010). Quiet Voices: The Significance of Subdued Dialogue and Voice-Over in the Films of Aleksandr Sokurov. Scando-Slavica, 56, 99-118. Taylor & Francis.
- Björling, F. (2004). When the Film Is Better Than the Book : Elem Klimov's Farewell and Valentin Rasputin's Farewell to Matyora. Russian Studies in Literature, 40, 64-78. Taylor & Francis.
Book chapters (8)
- Björling, F. (2010). Child Perspective: Tradition and Experiment. An Analysis of "The Childhood of Luvers" by Boris Pasternak. In Parts, L. (Ed.) The Russian twentieth-century short story : a critical companion (pp. 117-142). Academic Studies Press.
- Björling, F. (2008). From Paris to Reitarskaia. The Significance of Place in Pasternak’s Definition of Poetry. Ljubov' prostranstva … Poetika mesta v tvorchestve Borisa Pasternaka (The Poetics of Space in the Works of Boris Pasternak., 139-148. Jazyki slavjanskikh kul'tur.
- Björling, F. (2008). Mistrusting the Past. Andrei Nekrasov’s documentary composition, Nedoverie (Disbelief). In Lindbladh, J. (Ed.) CFE conference papers series, The Poetics of Memory in Post-Totalitarian Narration (pp. 111-120), 3. Centre for European Studies, Lund university.
- Björling, F. (2007). Contemporary narrative under the impact of visual culture. Ian McEwan’s Saturday – a story in flux. In Fateeva, N. (Ed.) Lingvistika i poetika v nachale tret'ego tysjaceletija (Linguistics and poetics at the beginning of the third millenium (pp. 415-420). Institut russkogo jazyka im V.V.Vinogradova RAN.
- Björling, F. (2006). Speeding in Time: Philosophy and Metaphor in a Presentation of Okhrannaia gramota Part One 6. In Fleishman, L. (Ed.) Stanford Slavic Studies, Eternity's Hostage. Selected Papers from the Stanford International Conference on Boris Pasternak, May StanfordIn Honor of Evgeny Pasternak and Elena Pasternak. Part I, 31. Berkeley Slavic Specialties.
- Björling, F. (2005). Introduction. In Björling, F. & Pereswetoff-Morath, A. (Eds.) Words, Deeds and Values. The Intelligentsia in Russia and Poland during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Slavica Lundensia, vol. 22, Lund University.
- Björling, F. (2004). As Time Goes by … Tentative Notes on Present Tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction. In Grelz, K. & Witt, S. (Eds.) Telling forms : 30 essays in honour of Peter Alberg Jensen. Almqvist & Wiksell International.
- Björling, F. (2004). Language, poetry and ideology. Bucharin, Pasternak and Bachtin in 1934–35. In Kiseleva, L., Lejbov, R. & Frajman, T. (Eds.) Lotmanovskij sbornik. 3. Moskva : OGI.
Conference contributions (1)
Reviews (4)
- Björling, F. (2008). Review of Aleksandr Khvan's film "The Guide Dog", 2007. KinoKultura. KinoKultura, KinoKultura.
- Björling, F. (2007). Film review: Ivan Vyrypaev: Euphoria (2006). KinoKultura, Jan 2007. KinoKultura, KinoKultura.
- Björling, F. (2007). Review of: Kira Muratova by Jane A,Taubman . (KINOfiles Filmmakers' Companions) London and New York: Tauris 2005. Modern Language Review, 102, 305-306. Modern Humanities Research Association.
- Björling, F. (2005). Review of Andrej Nekrasov. Disbelief. KinoKultura, July 2005. KinoKultura, KinoKultura.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
Supervision at Lund University (2)
- Bratova, N. (2013). The Petersburg Text of Russian Cinema in Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Eras. Lund Slavonic Monographs, 11. Lund University (Media-Tryck). Dissertation.
- Winblad-Carlzohn, J. (2009). Entangled Figures : Five Poems from Temy i variacii by Boris Pasternak. Lund Slavonic Monographs, 10. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. Dissertation.

Professor Emerita
- Russian Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail fiona.bjorlingslav.luse
Phone +46 46 222 47 87
Room SOL:L608
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20