Department of Slavonic Studies
Dr Rachel Polonsky
College: Murray EdwardsPositions:
Affiliated Lecturer
Department of Slavonic Studies Postal Address:
Department of Slavonic Studies
Sidgwick Avenue
CAMBRIDGE CB3 9DA Email: rap27@cam.ac.uk
Phone: (+44) (0)1223 335007 Fax (+44) (0)1223 335062
Rachel Polonsky’s scholarly interests include nineteenth and twentieth century poetry, fiction, and memoir, often with a comparative emphasis, and the place of Russian literature in the overlapping contexts of cultural, intellectual, and political history. She has published numerous essays, articles, and reviews on a wide variety of subjects in scholarly journals and anthologies, and is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement among other periodicals.
Books:
Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History (Faber and Faber, 2010)
English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
