Rachel Polonsky

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]

Rachel Polonsky
Nationality	British
Occupation	Writer
Academic work
Discipline	Slavic Literature

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]