Catriona Helen Moncrieff Kelly, FBA (born 6 October 1959)[1] is a British academic specialising in Russian culture.

Her sister is the cellist Alison Moncrieff-Kelly[7] and she is married to neuroscientist Professor Ian Thompson.

After spending six months living in Vienna, she read Russian and German at the University of Oxford, including a year (1980–1981) as a visiting student at Voronezh State University, USSR, sponsored by the British Council.

[10] Kelly is the author of many books about Russian history and culture, including Petrushka, the Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1990), A History of Russian Women's Writing (Oxford University Press, 1994), Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin (Oxford University Press, 2001), Russian Literature, A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2001), Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero (Granta Books, 2005/Moscow, 2009), a study of the boy hero Pavlik Morozov, St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past (Yale University Press, 2014), Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988, Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev (Oxford University Press, 2021), and articles for professional journals and for the general press.

In 2015, Catriona Kelly was president of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies,[13] the first person working at a university outside the United States to be appointed to this position.