Rachel Polonsky

Rachel Polonsky
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Acting President of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, affiliated lecturer in the Department of Slavonic Studies and author.
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 Acting President of Murray Edwards College of the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow in Slavonic Studies, former Vice-President, and a 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.