The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis

About

Sibelan Forrester is the Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Russian at Swarthmore College. Her publications emphasize translation theory and practice folklore and Silver Age Russian poetry; she is editor or co-editor of Engendering Slavic Literatures (Indiana UP 1996) Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures in an East-West Gaze (Indiana UP 2004) Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts (Academic Studies Press 2015) A Companion to Marina Tsvetaeva: Approaches to a Major Russian Poet (Brill 2016) and Times of Mobility: Transnational Literature and Gender in Translation (Central European University Press 2019). She has published translations of fiction poetry and scholarly prose from Croatian Russian Serbian and Ukrainian. Olga Partan is Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. She has authored a Russian-language memoir You were right Filumena! (Moscow: PROZAiK 2012) and the scholarly book Vagabonding Masks: The Italian Commedia dellArte in the Russian Artistic Imagination (Boston: Academic Studies Press 2017); her Commedia dell Arte book was also translated into Russian (St Petersburg: Academic Studies Press/ 2021).