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.

Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
(2018 ). "The Art and Answerability of Bakhtin’s Poetics”. Pages, pp. 41-62.
Book, Scholarly-Revised
(2017 ). The Spanish Knight Among the Soviet People: Dramatic Re-accentuations of Don Quixote as a Doomed Performer; You do not have access to modify this field.The Spanish Knight Among the Soviet People: Dramatic Re-accentuations of Don Quixote as a Doomed Performer. Bucknell University Press. Pages, pp. 221-36..
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2017 ). "The Author’s Heroes: Bulgakov’s Molière, and Other Deployments of World Literature Classics". The Comparatist. Volume, Fall 2017. Issue, November 2017. Pages, pp. 197-213.
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
The Spanish Knight Among the Soviet People: Dramatic Re-accentuations of Don Quixote as a Doomed Performer.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2016 ). Bulgarian Women Write the New European Subject. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. Volume, Volume 34.. Issue, Number 2. Pages, pp.379-401..
Book, Scholarly-New
(2014 ). Don Kikhot: A Dramatic Adaptation. Modern Language Association. Volume, 1. Issue, 1. Pages, 132.