Rachel Polonsky

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 of the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow in Slavonic Studies, former Vice-President, and a Graduate Tutor in Modern Languages/ Slavonic Studies (Russian).

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