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 specialising 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).
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 ISBN9780374211974
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. ISBN9780521027472
↑Grossman, Joan Delaney (2000). "BOOK REVIEWS - English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance". Slavic Review. 59: 242. doi:10.2307/2696961. JSTOR2696961. S2CID164697551.
