Notes on Contributors

Kate Holland is associate professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the University of Toronto. She is a scholar of nineteenth-century Russian prose, the history and theory of the novel, the history of literary theory, historical poetics, transnational realisms, computational literary studies, and Digital Humanities. Together with Katherine Bowers, she has created Digital Dostoevsky, a public TEI edition of a corpus of seven of Dostoevsky's novels, supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. She is currently working with Bowers on Computational Dostoevsky: Style, Form, Space and Time, which uses Dostoevsky's works as a case study for thinking about computational literary studies, also supported by a SSHRC grant. She is the author, most recently, of “Global Travelling Realisms from Literature to Film,” in the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms (2025).Dennis Ioffe holds the chair of Russian Studies (Titulaire de la Chaire de langue et littérature russe) at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium. Since 2016 he has served as coeditor-in-chief of Slavic Literatures (first quartile in Scopus/SJR), published by Elsevier Science. Since 2017 he has also been a senior scientific evaluator for the European Commission's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation in Brussels. Prior to joining ULB, Ioffe served in the Department of Languages and Cultures (Slavic and East European), Faculty of Arts at Ghent University. He has additionally held teaching and research appointments at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom), Memorial University (Canada), and the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Ioffe is the author of more than 150 scholarly articles and the editor or coeditor of numerous academic collections published by major presses in Western Europe and the United States. Over the past decade he has delivered more than 100 conference presentations and invited lectures at leading international venues in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.Ilya Kalinin is an Einstein visiting researcher at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. His recent researches focus on Russian literature, early Soviet intellectual and cultural history, and the historical and cultural politics of post-Soviet Russia. He is author of one book and more than two hundred academic articles and public essays which have been translated into fifteen languages. He is an editor and compiler of Viktor Shklovsky's Collected Works (Moscow).Mark Lipovetsky is professor at the Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University. He is the author of twelve books and editor/coeditor of more than twenty volumes on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian literature and culture. He is mostly known for his works on Russian postmodernism, New Russian drama, and the trickster in Soviet culture. Lipovetsky is one of four coauthors of The Oxford History of Russian Literature (2018) and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture (2024). Together with Serguei Oushakine he coordinated a series of conferences and seminars dedicated to Shklovsky's intellectual legacy.Michał Mrugalski is privatdozent at the Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and researcher in the Department of Letters and Arts, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu-ULBS, in Romania. After receiving his PhD in literary studies from the University of Warsaw, he habilitated at the University of Tübingen with a venia legendi in comparative and general literary studies as well as Slavic literature and culture. He has taught and researched at the Universities of Warsaw, Tübingen, Berlin (Humboldt-Universität), Basel, and Brussels (Université libre). His research interests include interrelations between literature and the visual arts, theater, performance, and film; transcultural intellectual history of aesthetics; literary theory and comparative literature (with a focus on Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, German- and English-speaking countries, and France); computational literary studies; and narratology. Recent publications include Words in Progress: Reader in Polish Narratology (coedited with Joanna Jeziorska-Haładyj, 2025); Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West (coedited and coauthored with Schamma Shadadat and Irina Wutsdorff, 2022); Tragödie und Revolution. Die kritischen Theorien der Tragödie als Ästhetiken der Praxis in Deutschland, Polen und Russland 1789 – 1848 – 1917 (2021).Serguei Alex. Oushakine is professor of anthropology and Slavic languages and literature at Princeton University. Among his latest publications is a study of early Soviet visual culture (A Medium for the Masses: Photomontage and the Optical Turn in Early Soviet Russia, 2020) and a coedited volume on political pictorialism in Soviet children's books (The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children, 2021). His current project deals with the post-Stalinist rediscovery of aesthetics in the Soviet Union (the aesthetic advancement, as it was called there).Igor Pilshchikov is professor and chair of the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), NETSIM project leader at the Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu (ULBS), and visiting professor at Tallinn University (TLÜ). He is editor of the Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB-web.ru), a web database called Comparative Poetics and Comparative Literature (CPCL.info), and academic journals Studia Metrica et Poetica and Pushkin Review. He has authored three monographs, edited twenty-five books and four thematic journal volumes, and published more than two hundred articles on Russian poetry and poetics, comparative literature, verse theory, literary theory, cultural semiotics, and digital humanities.Lidia Tripiccione earned her PhD in Slavic languages and literature at Princeton University in December 2024. Her dissertation explored the discovery of Russian Formalism in Western countries (the US, France, Germany, and Italy) in the 1950s and 1960s as well as the partial rehabilitation of the formalist theory in the USSR in the 1960s. Her other interests include the history of literary studies (literaturovedeniie) in the Soviet Union and the Digital Humanities. She has taken up the position of assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton in July 2025.Andrey Ustinov has a PhD from Stanford University, and is teaching in San Francisco. His academic specialty is East European cultural history and literary theory. His most recent work is dedicated to Ukrainian modernism and among other works includes an essay “Kyiv's Alexandria” and a soon to be published critical reader Ukrainian Literary Modernism: Texts and Contexts.

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