Dr. Rachel Polonsky

Biography

Rachel Polonsky is an academic associated with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. She functions as an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Slavonic Studies and holds positions as Director of Studies in Russian at Emmanuel College and as an Official Fellow at Murray Edwards College. Polonsky has a robust scholarly background focusing primarily on poetry, fiction, and memoir from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, with a comparative emphasis that overlaps cultural, intellectual, and political history. She has published numerous essays, articles, and reviews in a variety of scholarly journals and anthologies, and is a contributor to periodicals such as the New York Review of Books and Literary Supplement. Her teaching interests include supervising studies in Russian cultural history and nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. Her current research interests include aspects of the 'Eastern Question' in nineteenth-century Russian literature, and she has published several essays on contemporary Russian fiction writers.

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