Margarita Marinova
Associate Professor
McMurran Hall 223
(757) 594-7032
margarita.marinova@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin
- MA in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin
- MA in English, Stephen F. Austin State University
- BA in English Philology, Sofia University (Bulgaria)
Teaching
Literary Theory, World Literature, Russian and Eastern European Literature, the Balkans.
Research
Russian and Eastern European Literature and Culture, Cultural Studies, Travel Literature, Mikhail Bakhtin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Soviet literature and Culture, Bulgarian Literature, World Literature.
Biography
Margarita Marinova is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia. In 2014 Marinova’s translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s play Don Quixote (co-edited with Scott Pollard) was published in the MLA’s Texts and Translations series. The translation was nominated for a PEN award. Her book, Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing came out in 2011 (London and New York: Routledge). She has published articles about Russian and Soviet literature and culture, contemporary Bulgarian literature, and travel studies in journals such as the Slavic and East European Journal, Studies in Travel Writing, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.