DAVID BELLOS Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University BRIAN BOYD Lecturer in English, University of Auckland NEIL CORNWELL Professor Russian and Comparative Literature, University of Bristol JOHN BURT-FOSTER JR Professor of English and Cultural Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia CATRIONA KELLY Reader in Russian New College, Oxford MARIA MALIKOVA Post-Graduate Student, The Institute of Russian Literature, St Petersburg MICHAEL MEYLAC Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Antillas and French Guyana, Cayenne DALE E. PETERSON Professor of English and Russian, Amherst College ELLEN PIFER Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Delaware VERA PROSKURINA Visiting Professor, Cornell University JOHN QUINN Consultant Physician and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians SUSAN ELIZABETH SWEENEY Associate Professor of English, Holy Cross College RACHEL TROUSDALE Graduate Student, Yale University MICHAEL WOOD Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English at Princeton