Olga Maiorova Editor

Deborah A. Martinsen is Associate Dean of Alumni Education and Adjunct Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. She is author of Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative Exposure (2003; in Russian 2011), editor of Literary Journals in Imperial Russia (1997), and co-editor of Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (with Cathy Popkin and Irina Reyfman, 2014). Olga Maiorova is Associate Professor of Russian Literature and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of From the Shadow of Empire: Defining the Russian Nation through Cultural Mythology, 1855–1870 (2010) and has edited several books, including a two-volume edition of previously unpublished works by the major nineteenth-century writer Nikolai Leskov (1997–2000, in Russian) with Ksenia Bogaevskaya and Lia Rosenblium.