(RHGA Publishers, 2013).
serge.fokine@yandex.ru.
Marie-Christine Alix Garneau de l’Isle-Adam is a specialist in French literature, author of a number of works on Chateaubriand and comparative studies. She teaches French language and literature at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. Among her recent publications are: “Chateaubriand: le génie d’une Vierge toute terrestre” in La Vierge Marie dans la littérature française: Entre foi et littérature (Éditions Jacques André, 2014), and a comparative study “À l’ombre de Rousseau et de Sand, à la lumière de Chateaubriand, avant Proust et Céline: l’enfance chez Alphonse Daudet. (Joies et Drames dans l’enfance de Daudet», Bulletin de l’Association des Amis d’Alphonse Daudet, Édition Le Petit Chose, 2014).
garneau@hawaii.edu.
Irina Golovacheva is a specialist in American and British Literature, in mathematical methods of literary research, in history and theory of the fantastic, in history of ideas, and a translator. She is Professor of the Department of English Philology and Translation Studies at the Philological Faculty of Saint Petersburg State University. She is the author of two books: Science and Literature: The Archeology of Science in Aldous Huxley’s Writing (St. Petersburg SUP, 2008) and Fantastika and the Fantastic (Petropolis, 2013; 2nd ed., 2014) as well as chapters on Aldous Huxley and Henry James published by LIT Verlag, International Semiotics Institute, and IWL RAS Press (Moscow). Among her publications on Henry James there is a preface and commentaries to The Turn of the Screw (Azbuka, 2005).
igolovacheva@gmail.com.
Maria Nadyarnykh is a literary historian specializing in South American literature and culture. She works as Senior Researcher at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a co-editor of a number of collections including Russian Literature in the Mirrors of World Culture (IWL RAS, 2015; with A.B. Kudelin and V.V. Polonsky). She published over 100 essays on literary theory; problems of tradition in contemporary culture; history and theory of South American literatures and the literatures of the Iberian Peninsula; Jorge Luis Borges; and reception of Russian literature abroad.
nadmasha@mail.ru.
Elvira Osipova is a literary historian, specializing in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and philosophy; translator. She is Professor Emerita of Saint Petersburg State University, Philological Faculty. Her five monographs include Ralph Emerson and American Romanticism (St. Petersburg SUP, 2001), Enigmas of Edgar Poe: Commentary and Research (St. Petersburg SUP, 2004), and The American Novel from Cooper to London (Nestor-Istorija Publishers, 2014). Her publications on Poe appeared in various scholarly collections and in The Edgar Allan Poe Review. She served as a member of The Edgar Allan Poe Review Editorial Board in 2008 – 2009.
elvira.osipova@mail.ru.
Olga Panova is a literary historian, specialist in American literary history. She is Professor of the Department of Foreign Literature, Philological Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and Senior Researcher at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of The Worlds of Color: American Literature in the Quest for National Identity (Moscow SUP, 2014) and the editor of the scholarly book series Literature. 20th Century (2009 – present). She has published in different collections and journals including NLO, Voprosi Literaturi, and Moscow University Bulletin.
olgapanova65@rambler.ru.
Sandy Pecastaing is a specialist in comparative literature, history and theory of translation. In 2013, she defended a dissertation thesis entitled Poe et Baudelaire. Pour une hantologie du texte. Among her recent publications are the following essays: “De l’amour en traduction. Baudelaire et le ‘pauvre Eddie’” and “La traduction de Poe par Baudelaire ou la fidélité au mot comme liberté d’expression.”
sandy.pecastaing@wanadoo.fr.
Anne Pinot is a specialist in comparative studies and author of works on Berdyaev, Bernanos, and Dostoevsky. She teaches at the Institut catholique d’études supérieures in the Vendée. She is a co-editor of the collection Russie d’hier et d’aujourd’hui (with Christophe Réveillard, Editions S.P.M., 2016).
annepinot@wanadoo.fr.
Stephen Rachman teaches in the department of English at Michigan State University. He is co-author and co-editor of a number of monographs on American literature including The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe (Johns Hopkins UP, 1995). He is a past president of the Poe Studies Association, a member of the editorial board of The Edgar Allan Poe Review, and has written numerous articles on Poe, literature and medicine, cities, popular culture. He has published in such journals as American Literary History (ALH), Literature and Medicine, and Symbolism. He is completing a monograph The Jingle Man: Edgar Allan Poe and the Problems of Culture.
rachman@msu.edu.
Sergey Sapozhkov is a literary historian and specialist in Russian poetry of the 1880s and 1890s. He is Professor at the Department of Russian Literature at Moscow State Pedagogical University. He is the author of Russian Poets of the “Troubled Times” in the Mirror of Criticism in the 1880 – 1890s (MSPU Press, 1996), editor and author of commentary to the two academic editions: Nikolay Minsky. Verses and Poems (St. Petersburg, 2005) and Konstantin Fofanov. Verses and Poems (St. Petersburg, 2010). He has written numerous essays on the understudied subject of transitivity in the fin de siècle Russian literature and has published in such journals as NLO, Izvestia RАN/RAS Bulletin, Voprosi literaturi / Literary Issues, and Russkaya literature / Russian Literature.
servensap@yandex.ru.
Andrea Schellino is a philosopher, literary historian, and a specialist in the nineteenth-century French literature; he is currently preparing to defend a dissertation on the subject of Baudelaire and Nietzsche at the Sorbonne. He is the author of monographs on Rimbaud: Paradis de tristesse. L’equivoco cattolico e la religione di Rimbaud (Stampatori, 2010) and Baudelaire et Paul de Molènes (Editions Kimé, 2014). He published the annotated bibliography of Paris Spleen and numerous essay on Chateaubriand, Wagner, Proust, and Сhar. He is currently working on a new annotated edition of Paris Spleen.
andrea.schellino@yahoo.it.
Tatiana Sokolova is a specialist in French literature and comparative studies. She is Professor at the Department of the History of Foreign Literatures at Saint Petersburg State University and author of five monographs including From Romanticism to Symbolism. Essays on the History of French Poetry (St. Petersburg SUP, 2005) and The Facets of Creative Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire (Petropolis, 2015) as well as about 120 essays in collections and journals, including: Studi Francesi, Essais sur le discours de l’Europe éclatée, Le Porche, and Bulletin de l’Association des amis d’Alfred de Vigny.
tavissvs@mail.ru.
Virginie Tellier is an attaché for French at the French Embassy in Moscow; she is a specialist in comparative literature, comparative stylistics and linguistics, literary translation. In 2012, she defended a doctoral thesis entitled Le discours du fou dans le récit romantique européen: Allemagne, France, Russie. Her current research is on the history of comparative studies in Russia.
virginie.tellier@ifrussie.ru.
Dmitry Tokarev is a literary historian specializing in French-Russian cultural contacts. He is Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Professor at the National Research Institute Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg. He authored two monographs Worstward Ho: Absurd as Text Category in D. Harms and S. Beckett (NLO, 2002) and “Between India and Hegel”: Boris Poplavsky’s Literary Work in Comparative Perspective (NLO, 2011). He is the editor of “The Inexpressible Expressible”: Ekphrasis and the Problems of Representation of the Visual in the Literary Text (NLO, 2013).
tokarevd@mail.ru.
Alexandra Urakova is a literary historian specializing in Poe’s work and nineteenth-century American Literature. She works as Senior Researcher at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of The Poetics of the Body in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (IWL RAS, 2009) and the editor of Deciphering Poe: Subtexts, Contexts, Subversive Meanings (Lehigh UP / Rowan and Littlefield, 2013). She has published in NLO, New England Quarterly (NEQ), Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, and various collections. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of The Edgar Allan Poe Review (since 2012) and of Poe Studies (2010 – 2014).
alexandraurakova@yandex.ru.
Jean-Christophe Valtat is a French writer, critic, researcher and works as Professor at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier, France. He is the author of books on contemporary European fiction (Proust, James, the myths of avant-garde). His two monographs are on the poetics of contemporary European fiction: Premières Leçons sur L’Éducation sentimentale, un roman d’apprentissage (PUF, collection Major Bac, 1996) and Culture et figures de la relativité (Champion, 2004). He co-edited the following collections: