Anna Antonova

Anna Antonova is a literary scholar, university lecturer, and literary translator based in Edmonton, Canada. She completed her PhD in transnational and comparative literatures in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta in 2022. Anna’s dissertation research centred on literary translation of Canadian women’s writing into German, Russian, and Ukrainian, with emphasis on gender in translation, feminist translation theories, and translator agency. Her current research interests focus on literary representation of the Russo-Ukrainian war through English-language translation. Anna’s latest translation projects include Antonina Tymchenko’s Cape of Good Hope (2024) and Natalka Marynchak’s Antidespairant (2025).