Yasha Klots Editor

Yasha Klots is Assistant Professor of Russian at the Hunter College (CUNY), New York. He received his Ph.D. in Russian literature from Yale University in 2011 and M.A. from Boston College in 2005. His research interests include Russian and East European émigré literature and book history, contemporary Russian poetry, linguistic anthropology, bilingualism and literary translation, Gulag narratives, urbanism, the mythology of St. Petersburg and representation of other cities in Russian literature. He is also the director of Tamizdat Project, an online archive of documents on «contraband» Russian literature (1956-1991).