Ainsley Morse

Ainsley Morse is a literary translator and Russian literature scholar specializing in poetry and the 20th century.

The Guts of the Living: On Polina Barskova’s “Air Raid”
Ainsley Morse and Michael M. Weinstein dive into “Air Raid,” a collection of poems by Polina Barskova, translated from the Russian by Valzhyna Mort.
Ainsley Morse, Michael M. WeinsteinJan 17, 2022
- Around the World
Yuri Tynianov’s “Film — Word — Music” (1924)
Vera Koshkina and Ainsley Morse present “Film — Word — Music,” a 1924 essay on film by the great Formalist theorist Yuri Tynianov.
Ainsley Morse, Vera Koshkina, Yuri TynianovAug 11, 2018
- Around the World
- Film
“Comrade, Can You Paint My Horse?” Soviet Kids’ Books Today
Ainsley Morse takes “The Fire Horse,” a collection of Soviet-era children’s poems translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, for a ride.
Ainsley MorseMar 14, 2017

The Guts of the Living: On Polina Barskova’s “Air Raid”