Russian Literature in Asia

Cathy McAteer is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter for the ERC-funded project The Dark Side of Translation: 20th and 21st Century Translation from Russian as a Political Phenomenon in the UK, Ireland and the USA (RusTrans). Her main research interests are in the field of classic Russian and Soviet literature in English translation, specifically Penguin's Russian Classics. Her first monograph, Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics (BASEES Routledge series, 2021), is available in Gold Open Access. She is currently finalising her second monograph, Cold War Women: Female Translators and Cultural Mediators of Russian and Soviet Literature in the Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).