Early Life
Educated at Bemrose School, Derby, Joe Andrew was a grammar school boy from a non-intellectual, Roman Catholic, middle class family. He won a Scholarship to study at University College, Oxford and, in 1969, he was awarded a First-Class Honours degree in Modern Languages.
In 1971, whilst researching the history of the Russian literary language at Wolfson College, Oxford, Andrew joined the recently formed ‘Neo-Formalist Circle’. His membership of the Circle, and his interest in Russian formalism, has continued to the present- day.
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