In 2014 Marinova’s translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s play Don Quixote (co-edited with Scott Pollard) was published in the MLA’s Texts and Translations series. The translation was nominated for a PEN award. Her book, Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing came out in 2011 (London and New York: Routledge). She has published articles about Russian and Soviet literature and culture, contemporary Bulgarian literature, and travel studies in journals such as the Slavic and East European Journal, Studies in Travel Writing, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.