Zaal Andronikashvili is a research associate at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies in Berlin and a Professor at Ilia-State-University, Tbilisi. He studied History and Philology in Tbilisi and Saarbrücken and completed his PhD at Göttingen-University (2005). His research interests include Narratology (theory of suzhet), metahistory of literature, small/minor literature(s), world literature, cultural semantics, political theology, cultural history of Georgia, and soviet and post-soviet cultural history. He has written or co-written: Die Erzeugung des dramatischen Textes: Ein Beitrag zur Theorie des Sujets (2008); Landna(h)me Georgien: Studien zur kulturellen Semantik (2018); and Uʒlurebis dideba: Ṗolitiḳuri teologia sakartveloš (in Print).
Ruth Averbach is a lecturer in the Program for Civic, Liberal, and Global Education at Stanford University. She holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Stanford University. Her areas of research include nineteenth-century Russian literature, women's writing, trans and queer theory, and Yiddish in the Soviet Union. She is currently writing a book on Aleksandr Aleksandrov.
Ágoston Berecz is a fellow at Pasts, Inc, Budapest. At the time of writing the article, he was a fellow at Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena. His second book, Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries (Berghahn Books, 2020), tells the history of nationalization processes in Transylvania-at-large from the perspective of proper names.
Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian Literature and Culture at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is the author, editor and co-editor of thirty books, including State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture (2022), Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics (2020), Museum of the Revolution: Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History (2008), Political Economy of Socialist Realism (2007), Aesthetics of Alienation: Reassessment of Early Soviet Cultural Theories (2005), The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture (2001), The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature (1997), and more than 300 articles and essays which have been translated into ten languages.
Susanne Frank is professor and chair of East Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany). She obtained her PhD at the University of Konstanz, where she was assistant professor. She was visiting professor at the Universities of Regensburg and Princeton; she had research stays at the universities of Moscow, Tomsk, Prague, Princeton and at the IFK Vienna. She authored, among others, Gogol΄ and the Discourse of the Sublime (1999), and Imperial Appropriation: The Topos of Siberia in Russian Literature, Ethnography, and Historiography (2004). Lately she co-edited, with Kjetil A. Jakobsen, Arctic Archives: Ice, Memory and Entropy (2019); Bildformeln: Visuelle Erinnerungskulturen in Osteuropa (2018); and with Franziska Thun-Hohenstein, Körper, Gedächtnis, Literatur in (post-)totalitären Kulturen (2021).
Dalia Satkauskytė is Research Director at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. She is the winner of the Lithuanian Sciences Prize in Humanities (2020). She has published two monographs, authored more than fifty articles in Lithuanian, English, Russian, French, Polish, and German, and edited three books, including The Literary Field under Communist Rule (2019).
Klavdia Smola is professor and chair of Slavic Literatures at the University of Dresden in Germany. She obtained her PhD at the University of Tübingen, was assistant and visiting professor at the University of Greifswald; she also completed research stays at the universities of Jerusalem, Moscow, Barcelona, Constance and Cracow. She authored Types and Patterns of Intertextuality in the Prose of Anton Chekhov (2004, in German) and Reinvention of Tradition: Contemporary Russian-Jewish Literature (2021, in Russian).
Trevor Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Russian at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on the history of Russo-Soviet philosophy as well as diaspora studies. He is currently writing an intellectual biography of Alexandre Kojève through the lens of the emigration of Russian philosophy in the early twentieth century. His second book project is devoted to Eval΄d Ilienkov and late-Soviet philosophy.
