He taught Russian and German language/literature for all Cambridge colleges from 1971 to 1977 and 1987 to 1993, as well as researching early
Chekhov with a period spent in Moscow 1972 to 1974, meeting leading Russian literary critics including
Mikhail Bakhtin.[2] He has been a writer, translator, and researcher since then, and worked in the theatre, including being artistic director of the
Cambridge Chekhov Company and Russian consultant to the
Royal National Theatre. He was also a Senior Research Associate at
Cambridge University 1984–87, after which he ran an information consultancy and a European translation agency 1991–99.
In 2010 Miles was awarded a Cambridge PhD for his publications on Russian literature, especially the work of Anton Chekhov.
He currently resides in
Cambridge, where he continues to write books, articles, poems[3] and plays.
Selected works
Books
Chekhov on the British Stage (Cambridge, CUP, 1993) (edited and translated by)
ISBN978-0521384674
Mikhail Gromov, Chekhov Scholar and Critic: An Essay in Cultural Difference (Nottingham, Astra Press, 2006)
ISBN978-0946134687
Brief Lives: Anton Chekhov (London, Hesperus Press, 2008)
ISBN978-1843919001
Chekhov: The Early Stories 1883–88, translated by Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher (John Murray/Macmillan New York, 1982; Abacus 1984; World's Classics 1994, Oxford World's Classics 1999)
A Theatre Romance (1990), translation of Teatral'nyi roman by
Bulgakov, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre
Two Plays by Aleksandr Vampilov (1994)
The Russian Theatre after Stalin (1999)
A Moth on the Fence (2009)
Articles, Papers, Book Chapters
Chekhov and the Company Problem in the British Theatre, in Chekhov on the British Stage (1993), pp. 185–93
Aleksandr Vampilov: A Playwright whose Time is Now, in British East-West Journal (December 1994), pp. 7–8
Chekhov, Shakespeare, the Ensemble and the Company; Peter Hall interviewed by Patrick Miles New Theatre Quarterly, 11, no.43 (1995), pp. 203–10
Chekhov on the English Stage, in Chekhov and World Literature (1997), pp. 493–534
Leavis and Bakhtin, Cambridge Review, November 1998, pp. 42–46
A Conversation with Bakhtin, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 36, no.4, October 2000, pp. 438–49
Cheshire Cats in the Theatre: A Translation and Fringe Experience, New Theatre Quarterly, November 2000, pp. 359–63
Early Chekhov: The Making of a Totalitarian Consensus, Slavonica, 14 (2008), no.1, pp. 18–43
Chekhov at 150: The "Hampstead Connection", The London Magazine, June/July 2010, pp. 98–102
Joseph Brodsky in Leningrad, Poetry Nation Review, May–June 2019, pp. 17–20
^Miles, Patrick (2000). "A Conversation with Bakhtin". Forum for Modern Language Studies, 36, No.4, October 2000. pp.438-49.{{
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