John L. L. Cook

I completed my D.Phil in Medieval and Modern Languages (Russian sub-faculty) at the University of Oxford in 2016. My research project focused on Bakhtin's self-fashioning and its implications for his work (particularly his theories of identity and language). I am currently an Honorary Fellow at the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne. I also hold the position of Reviews Editor, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies (ISSN 0818-8149) [http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/research/research-publications/european-studies/asees-journal].

In 2017, I completed a project on how Bakhtin appropriated Lucian of Samosata's Menippean satire and internalized it for use in his theories. This was closely followed by a paper on Bakhtin's analysis of selected figures of speech in Dostoevsky's work. My current project involves a review of Bakhtin's debt to German Romantic hermeneutics.

I have presented papers at Bakhtin XVI in Shanghai (2017), Bakhtin XV in Stockholm (2014) and the Australian and New Zealand Slavists’ Association’s annual conference (2013). I have published articles in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies and Parallax and have forthcoming articles in Critical Theory and The Dostoevsky Journal scheduled for later in 2018.

Prior to my candidacy at Oxford, I had careers in Book Publishing and Information Technology.

Additional areas of interest include Wittgenstein, J L Austin and other ordinary language philosophers; and also Jaina theories of logic.