Robert L. Belknap has been teaching Russian literature at Columbia University since the 1950s and has written two books about The Brothers Karamazov. He has been a member of a seminar on applied psychoanalysis for over twenty years, has been active in Columbia’s core curriculum, and co-authored a book on General Education. More recently, he has been studying the nature and uses of literary plots.
Boris Christa was for twenty-five years Professor and Head of the Department of Russian at the University of Queensland. He is the author of a study of Andrei Belyi’s lyric poetry and of several articles on the technique of symbolist verse. Recently he has published extensively on aspects of pragmatic semiotics.
Susanne Fusso is Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA. She is the author of Designing ‘Dead Souls’: An Anatomy of Disorder in Gogol, and co-editor with Priscilla Meyer of Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word. She is at present working on a study of Dostoevskii’s A Raw Youth.
Malcolm V. Jones is Emeritus Professor of Russian at the University of Nottingham, and a former President of the International Dostoevsky Society. He has written many articles and books on Dostoevskii, and his Dostoyevsky after Bakhtin (Cambridge University Press, 1990) has also appeared in a Russian translation. He is also co-editor with Robin Feuer Miller of The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
William Leatherbarrow is Professor of Russian at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of many books and articles on Dostoevskii and co-editor with Derek C. Offord of
A Documentary History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism (1987). His recent works include
Dostoevskii and Britain (1995) and
‘The Devils’: A Critical
Companion (1999). He is currently completing a monograph on the demonic in Dostoevskii.
Gary Saul Morson is Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky’s ‘Diary of a Writer’ (1981), Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in ‘War and Peace’ (1987), and Narrative and Freedom (1994). He has recently published (under the pseudonym Alicia Chudo) a collection of parodies on Russian culture, And Quiet Flows the Vodka (2000).
Derek Offord is Professor of Russian Intellectual History and Head of the Department of Russian Studies at the University of Bristol. His publications include books on nineteenth-century Russian liberal thinkers and on revolutionary Populism and, most recently, Nineteenth-Century Russia: Opposition to Autocracy (1999), for the Longman Seminar Studies in History series.
Diane Oenning Thompson is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of ‘The Brothers Karamazov’and the Poetics of Memory (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and several articles on Dostoevskii. She is coeditor of Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
William Mills Todd, III is Professor of Russian at Harvard University. He is the author of many books and articles on Russian literature, including The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin (1976) and Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin: Ideology, Institutions, and Narrative (1986).
Faith Wigzell is Reader in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London. She is the author of many articles on Russian folklore and literature, as well as of the monographs Reading Russian Fortunes (1998) and (under the name Faith C. M. Kitch) The Literary Style of Epifanij Premudryj (1976). She is also editor of Russian Writers on Russian Writers (1994) and Nikolay Gogol: Text and Context (1989).