Participant Bios

	Edyta Bojanowska Yale University Professor & Conference Faculty Host
	Vitaly Chernetsky University of Kansas Professor & Conference Faculty Host
	Uilleam Blacker University College London, UK Lecturer
	Anikó Imre University of Southern California Professor and Chair of Critical Studies
	Petra James Centre d’Etudes Tchèques at Université libre de Bruxelles Chair of Czech Literature and Director
	Olesya Khromeychuk King’s College London, UK Teaching Fellow in Modern European History
	Neringa Klumbytė Miami University Associate Professor
	Eneken Laanes Tallinn University, Estonia Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis
	Benjamin Paloff University of Michigan Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
	Monica Popescu McGill University Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures in the Department of English
	Larson Powell University of Missouri Kansas City Professor of Film and Director of the Humanities Consortium
	Daniel W. Pratt McGill University Assistant Professor
	Mykola Riabchuk Institute of Political and Nationalities’ Studies, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; and University of Warsaw, Poland, and Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer
	Anita Starosta Pennsylvania State University Associate Teaching Professor
	Aniko Szucs Yale University Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
	Dirk Uffelmann Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany Professor of East and West Slavic Literatures
	Mitja Velikonja University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Professor
	Tomasz Zarycki University of Warsaw, Poland Professor and Director