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List of Contributors helena GosCilo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic & East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. Yana hashamova is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic & East European Languages and Cultures and the Director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at The Ohio State University. mark lipovetskY is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. trina r. mamoon is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. tatiana mikhailova is Senior Instructor of Russian Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Dr. elzbieta ostrowska teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. alexander prokhorov is Associate Professor of Russian and Film at College of William and Mary. elena prokhorova is Associate Professor of Russian and Film at College of William and Mary. 274 EMBRACING ARMS robert a. rothstein is Professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies and Amesbury Professor of Polish Language, Literature and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. irina sandomirskaja is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Baltic and East European Graduate School of the University College of South Stockholm, Sweden, at University College Södertörn. jessiCa wienhold-brokish is an independent scholar of comparative literature. ...

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