is Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, where he serves as dean of the Graduate School and director of the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies.  His interests range from Russian literature and culture to East European and Balkan culture, history, and politics.  His book, The Balkans in World History, was published by Oxford University Press in 2008.

has taught at the University of Maine since 1983. He is a graduate of Yale University (BA) and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Ph.D.).  He teaches British Romantic Poetry, Critical Theory, Fascist Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Translation Studies, and Film.  His poetry has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, The New Review of Literature, Cerise Press, Drunken Boat, Otoliths, and Poetry Salzburg Review.  He translates from Russian, German, and French.  He is the author of Stalin’s Eyes (Puckerbrush Press) and is Senior Faculty Associate at the University’s Franco – American Centre.

was born in Radstock, England.  She has worked on translations of a variety of texts from history and the history of art to medical papers, from film and play scripts to poetry and novels. In her work she has frequently collaborated with her husband or with Ljubica Arsovska.  She has gained awards from the Macedonian Guild of Translators and the Struga Poetry Festival and is a Doctor of Ss Cyril and Methodius University.

at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, he is a Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures: 19th and 20th century Russian and Soviet literature and history; history, culture, and literature of the Balkans, especially what was once Yugoslavia; contemporary Russian literature and culture.