KAREN RYAN is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. Her work has appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals, including Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Literature, Canadian Slavonic Paper and Zeitschrift fur Slawistik. She is the author of two books: Russian Publicistic Satire Under Glasnost': The Journalistic Feuilleton and Contemporary Russian Satire: A Genre Study. She is author-editor of Venedikt Erofeev's Moscow-Petushki: Critical Perspectives.
BARRY SCHERR is the Mandel Family Professor of Russian and Associate Dean for the Humanities at Dartmouth College. His teaching interests include both nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature, comparative literature, and film. He is the author of articles on Russian prose, Russian poetry of the Silver Age, verse theory, and other topics; among his books are Russian Poetry: Meter, Rhythm, and Rhyme and, most recently, Maksim Gorky: Selected Letters, which he co-edited and co-translated with Andrew Barratt.
