Catherine B. O'Neil

Catherine O’Neil is Assistant Professor of Russian at the United States Naval Academy. Her scholarship focuses on Russian imperial politics and literature in the period of Romanticism. Her previous publications include a monograph on Pushkin and Shakespeare (With Shakespeare’s Eyes, 2003) and several articles on Russian, English and Polish romanticism. She has also published several translations, most recently of the long poem by Polish poet Juliusz Slowacki, Agamemnon’s Tomb. The translation, as well as an extended commentary to it, will be published this fall. Her current work concerns Russian and Georgian cultural relations in the early 19th century, concentrating on the Russian poet Alexander Griboedov and the Georgian poet Alexander Chavchavadze.