Jessica Tipton

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Jessica Tipton is a postgraduate researcher at the University of East Anglia. Supported by the Ariadne Nicolaeff Scholarship, she is translating plays on environmental and feminist themes from Russian into English from the late Soviet period to the present day. This topic neatly combines the twin interests of Russian studies and environmental policy that Jessica has pursued in her career and research to date.

Previously she completed a PhD on the topic of multilingualism in the Russian nobility (1750s-1850s) on a studentship attached to an AHRC-funded multidisciplinary project on the History of the French Language in Russia led by Professor Derek Offord at the University of Bristol alongside teaching Russian translation and history to BA and MA students. As part of this project she published a chapter on code-switching in the volume French and Russian in Imperial Russia (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and was awarded a medal ‘For services to Freedom and Enlightenment’ by the Moscow Dashkova Humanities Institute for research into the history of Russian interests in English landscape gardens. She completed her MA in Russian Studies from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies UCL where she published her thesis on Russia and climate change policy in the postgraduate Slovo journal. She holds an undergraduate degree in Russian with French from the University of Bristol, and has studied clarinet at the St Petersburg Conservatoire in Russia and the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Postgraduate researcher, University of East Anglia

Education

  • 2017 
    University of Bristol, PhD in Russian History
  • 2006 
    University College London School of Slavonic & East European Studies , MA in Russian Studies
  • 2003 
    University of Bristol, BA in Russian with French: First class honours
  • 2002 
    St Petersburg Conservatoire, Russia , Postgraduate diploma in Clarinet

Publications

  • 2015
    Chapter 'Code-switching in the correspondence of the Vorontsov family' in French and Russian in Imperial Russia, Edinburgh University Press
  • 2008
    Article 'Why did Russia ratify the Kyoto protocol? Why the Wait? An Analysis of the Environmental, Economic, and Political Debates', Slovo. 20, p. 67-96

Grants and Contracts

  • 2025
    Russian drama translation
    Role:
    PhD
    Funding Source:
    Ariadne Nicolaeff Scholarship
  • 2011
    History of French in Russia
    Role:
    PhD Studentship
    Funding Source:
    AHRC

Contact Jessica for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision