Rachel Polonsky

Rachel Polonsky is an Affiliated Lecturer in Slavonic Studies and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College in the University of Cambridge. Her scholarly interests include nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first 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 contributor to the The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement among other periodicals. She is the author of English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History (Faber & Faber, 2010).