Rachel Polonsky

Rachel Polonsky
Nationality	British
Occupation	Writer
Academic work
Discipline	Slavic Literature

Rachel Polonsky is a British scholar specializing in Slavic Literature. Her books include Molotov's Magic Lantern and English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance. She is Vice-President of Murray Edwards College of the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow in Slavonic Studies; Graduate Tutor in Modern Languages/ Slavonic Studies (Russian). ^[1]

Education

• MA in English (Jesus College, University of Cambridge)
• MA Russian Studies (Princeton University)
• D.Phil (Oxford University) with a thesis on the reception of English literature in early 19th century Russia

Career

• Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
• Independent scholar and freelance journalist in Moscow
• Fellow of Murray Edwards since 2011

Bibliography

• Polonsky, Rachel. Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 ISBN   9780374211974
  • Translated into Chinese by Chuangchuang Lu as Cong Mosike dao Gulage : Eluosi li shi shang de guang hui yu hei an = Molotov's magic lantern : a journey in Russian history
  • Translated into Italian as La lanterna magica di Molotov : viaggio nella storia della Russia
  • Translated into Dutch by Nico Groen; Marianne Tieleman; Ansfried Scheifes as Molotovs toverlantaarn : een reis door de Russische geschiedenis
  • Translated into Polish by Marek Król; as Latarnia magiczna Mołotowa : podróże w historię Rosji
• Polonsky, Rachel. English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press,1998. ISBN   9780521027472 ^{[2] [3] [4]}

References

1. Official CV at Murray Edwards College
2. Grossman, Joan Delaney (2000). "BOOK REVIEWS - English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance". Slavic Review. 59: 242. doi:10.2307/2696961. JSTOR   2696961. S2CID   164697551.
3. BOOTH, H. J (1 February 2000). "REVIEWS" . The Review of English Studies. 51 (201): 158–159. doi:10.1093/res/51.201.158. ISSN   0034-6551.
4. Thompson, Diane Oenning (March 2001). "Book Reviews : English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance. By Rachel Polonsky. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Pp. xii + 249. £45.00" . Journal of European Studies. 31 (121): 139–141. doi:10.1177/004724410103112127. ISSN   0047-2441. S2CID   162724330.