# Rachel Polonsky

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'''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](/source/Murray_Edwards_College) of the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge), where she is a Fellow in Slavonic Studies, former Vice-President, and a  Graduate Tutor in Modern Languages/ Slavonic Studies (Russian).<ref>[https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/fellows/dr-rachel-polonsky Official CV at Murray Edwards College]</ref>

==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}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Grossman|first=Joan Delaney|date=2000|title=BOOK REVIEWS - English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance|journal=Slavic Review|volume=59|pages=242|doi=10.2307/2696961|jstor=2696961|s2cid=164697551}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=BOOTH|first=H. J|date=2000-02-01|title=REVIEWS|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/51.201.158|journal=The Review of English Studies|volume=51|issue=201|pages=158–159|doi=10.1093/res/51.201.158|issn=0034-6551|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Thompson|first=Diane Oenning|date=March 2001|title=Book Reviews : English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance. By Rachel Polonsky. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Pp. xii + 249. £45.00|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004724410103112127|journal=Journal of European Studies|volume=31|issue=121|pages=139–141|doi=10.1177/004724410103112127|s2cid=162724330|issn=0047-2441|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

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