Anna Namestnikov (°1997) is an FWO Fundamental Research Fellow at the Russian section of the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University), where she is a member of the TRACE research group. She obtained a Master of Arts in Eastern European Languages and Cultures (Russian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian) in 2019-2020 (Ghent University). Before starting her FWO project, Anna worked as a teaching and research assistant (September 2021 - November 2023, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Ghent University), where she co-taught courses on Russian grammar and Russian literature and conducted preliminary research for her PhD project. As of November 2023 she has been working on a PhD project on the system of translation in Russian émigré periodicals (1919-1939) under the supervision of Piet Van Poucke.
