Jens Petter Nielsen Editor

Kari Aga Myklebost is Professor of History and Barents Chair in Russian Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She has published articles and book chapters on various aspects of the historical relations between Norway and Russia throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a special focus on the northernmost regions of the two states. Her works include studies in diplomatic and economic relations, scientific relations in polar research, and state policy towards northern minority groups. She is currently working on a biography of Olaf Broch, Norway’s first professor of Slavonic Studies and a topical figure in Norwegian-Russian relations during the first half of the twentieth century.

Jens Petter Nielsen is Professor of History at the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies, and Theology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He has published extensively on Soviet history and historiography, as well as on Russian-Norwegian relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lately, he has edited Sblizhenie: Rossiia i Norvegiia v 1814–1917 godakh (Getting closer: Norway and Russia 1814-1917) (Moscow: Ves’ Mir publishing house, 2017).

Andrei Rogatchevski is Professor of Russian Literature and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Among his latest co-edited volumes/thematic clusters are “Filming the Strugatskiis,” Science Fiction Film and Television 8, no. 2 (2015), “Russophone Periodicals in Israel,” Stanford Slavic Studies 47 (2016), “Madness and Literature,” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 80 (2017), and “Russian Space: Concepts, Practices, Representations,” Nordlit 39 (2017).