Dr. Rajendra Chitnis

Rajendra Chitnis is associate professor of Czech and Slovak at the University of Oxford, where he teaches Czech and Slovak literature from the fourteenth century to the present. He writes mainly on twentieth-century and contemporary Czech, Russian and Slovak literature. He is the author of Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe (2005) and Vladislav Vancura: The Heart of the Czech Avant-garde (2007) and lead editor of Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations (2020).

Rajendra Chitnis is associate professor of Czech and Slovak at the University of Oxford, where he teaches Czech and Slovak literature from the fourteenth century to the present. He writes mainly on twentieth-century and contemporary Czech, Russian and Slovak literature. He is the author of Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe (2005) and Vladislav Vancura: The Heart of the Czech Avant-garde (2007) and lead editor of Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations (2020). See less