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Faculty Excellence Award in Scholarship: Dr. Margarita Marinova
Faculty Excellence Award in Scholarship
MARGARITA MARINOVA
Professor of English
DR. MARINOVA has an exemplary record of scholarship during her past three years at CNU. As an expert in Russian and Eastern European literature and culture, she relies on translation practices to expand our understanding of literary products within and among various cultures and periods.
During the last three years, her work has led to the publication of two books, three articles published in top peer-reviewed journals, and she has signed a contract with Bloomsbury Academic to publish a scholarly collection of essays for which she served as an editor.
As a translator, Dr. Marinova’s most impressive contributions came with the publications of her books Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors (2021) and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews (2019).
Russian Modernism consists of her translations of six interviews conducted by Moscow University Professor Victor Duvakin with surviving participants of the Russian Modernist movement that continued their work during Stalin’s repressive regime. Her 234 page-book represented the first English translations of Duvakin’s interviews which was accompanied by glowing reviews that praised the readability of her work as an invaluable source of information for “anyone with interest in Russian 20thcentury culture.”
Her 2019 work, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews is not only the first English translation of Bakhtin’s private opinions (which he never expressed elsewhere), she and her collaborator were the first Western academics allowed to work with the recordings.
As one of the most significant scholars of the 20th century, her 332-page volume provided English speaking audiences with the first opportunity to experience Bakhtin’s private voice. Her book was chosen by Bucknell University Press as their most significant publication in 2019 and she was nominated for a PROSE award, one of the most prestigious awards for academic writing in the United States.
