PI Prof Maguire's monograph on the history of literary translation from Russian in America, focusing on the translator Nicholas Wreden and informed by intensive archival research in the US, is in preparation with Bloomsbury Academic.
The project PDRA, Dr McAteer, has published a monograph based on her case study 'David Magarshack and Penguin Books', now available Open Access from Routledge as 'Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics'. Her next monograph, "Cold War Women", on twentieth- and twenty-first century female literary translators working from Russian to English, is in press. PhD Maslenova has published two peer-reviewed articles on individual female translators.
The project co-edited volume 'Translating Russian Literature In The Global Context', which will provide the world's first truly global picture of the reception and translation of Russian literature since 1900, with 37 international contributors, will be published Open Access in March 2024, co-edited by Prof Maguire and Dr McAteer.
All project monographs and articles are or will be available Open Access.
All three of the project's fully funded PhD students, who are working on related topics in Russian-to-English and Russian-to-Greek literary translation, have graduated or are about to submit their theses.
The project conference took place in 2022, and the 12 translation samples funded by RusTrans can be viewed on the project blog.
All five project team members have presented research at international conferences, 2019-2023, and participated in multiple research networks. Additionally, Dr Maguire acted as a juror for the prestigious Read Russia 2020 Translation Prize for the best recent published literary translation from Russian to English. Both Prof Maguire and Dr McAteer have liaised with prominent Russian publishing houses, namely AST and EKSMO respectively, to learn more about in-house processes for selecting and marketing abroad Russian literary fiction.
