John Frederick Bailyn
is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His interests are linguistic theory, cognitive science, Slavic linguistics, syntax, musical perception, languages and evolutionary psychology. He is also Director of the Critical Languages Scholarship intensive Russian summer language institutes. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University. Website

Carlos de Cuba
is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Pomona College. His primary research interests lie theoretical and comparative syntax. His work examines the structure of factive and non-factive complements, CP structure and comparative Germanic syntax. He holds a Ph.D in Linguistics from Stony Brook University.

Mary (Polly) Gannon
is Visiting Professor of Literature and Translation at St. Petersburg State University. Her interests include translation theory, comparative literature and poetry, women's literature, and film studies. She teaches courses in Cultural Studies and Translation and is Director of Russian Studies for Stony Brook University at St. Petersburg State University. She hosts the weekly Translators' Tea Party at 'Zoom' in St. Petersburg. Tea party blog: She holds a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from Cornell University. Website

Amelia Glaser

is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California at San Diego.  She specializes in Russian Literature, Modern Yiddish Literature, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and the Literature of Ukraine.  She has published several articles on Russian literature and Jewish-Slavic relations, as well as translations from Russian, Yiddish and Italian. She is the translator and co-editor (with David Weintraub) of an anthology of American Yiddish poetry, Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets (2005).  She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford.

Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood
is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at Stony Brook University. She specializes in Polish and Russian nineteenth-century literatures, and East-Central European cinema. She teaches courses in film studies, cultural studies, and literature. She is the author of Between East and West: Polish and Russian Nineteenth-Century Travel to the Orient (University of Rochester Press, 2004). She holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Literature from Yale University. Website

Nina Kazanina
is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bristol. Her research interests are in the field of psycholinguistics, spanning from acquisition of syntax and semantics to neurolinguistics, sentence processing and speech perception. More recently she has been interested in exploring the degree to which the speaker's use of grammatical knowledge guides his/her online processing and whether it is used to restrict the set of possible candidate representations. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Maryland. Website

Konstantine Klioutchkine
is Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Russian at Pomona College. His interests are in Russian 19th- and 20th-century literature, the history of the press, literary theory, media studies, and Czech 20th-century literature. He holds a Ph.D. in Russian literature from the University of California at Berkeley.

László Imre Komlósi
is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pecs, Hungary. His research interests lie in the area of Pragmatics and Discourse and also involve Semiotics and semantics. He holds a Ph.D from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Website

Leah Lowe
is Associate Professor of Theater at Connecticut College. Her research interests include theories of comedy, gender studies, and popular American culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her performance interests include devised theater, comic techniques, and American drama. She teaches courses on performance and the representation of gender and race in dramatic literature and other cultural forms. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in dramaturgy from The Florida State University School of Theater. Website

James McFarland
is Assistant Professor of German and Philosophy at Connecticut College. His research interests extend from the epistemology of Leibniz to the political theology of George Romero. He has taught on topics ranging from the philosophy of tragedy to the concept of history in Emerson, Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin. His dissertation examined the Nietzschean context of Walter Benjaminís philosophy. He holds a Ph.D. in German Literature from Princeton University. Website

Loraine Obler
is a Distinguished Professor in the Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the City University of New York, with a joint appointment in the Program in Linguistics. Her research is in the neurolinguistics of bilingualism, cross-language study of aphasia, the language changes of healthy aging and dementia, the neuropsychology of talent, and dyslexia. She is the author of The Bilingual Brain: Neuropsychological and Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism (with Martin Albert, 1978), Bilingualism Across the Lifespan: Aspects of Acquisition, Maturity, and Loss (with Kenneth Hyltenstam, 1989), and Language and the Brain (with Kris Gjerlow, 1999). She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan. Website

Roumyana Pancheva
is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California. Her research interests are in comparative syntax, in both a synchronic and historical perspective, and on the interface between syntax and semantics. It employs formal modeling, cross-linguistic comparison from a synchronic and diachronic perspective, and neurolinguistic experimentation. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Website

Norvin Richards
is Associate Professor of Linguistics at MIT. His research interests include wh-movement, crucially derivational properties of syntax, endangered languages, he WÙpan’ak Language Reclamation Project, or any of various issues in the syntax of Tagalog or other Austronesian languages. He hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT. Website

Irina Sekerina
is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Psychology at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Her interests include Experimental Psychology and Theoretical Linguistics. Author of numerous articles on experimental psycholinguistics, Prof. Sekerina is co-editor of Developmental Psycholinguistics: On-Line Methods in Children’s Language Processing (2008). She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from both Moscow State Unversity and the CUNY Graduate Center. Website

Sergei Tatevosov
is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Theoretical and Applid Linguistics at Moscow State University. Author of numerous book and articles, Prof. Tatevosov specializes in Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax and the Syntax-Semantics Interface. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from Moscow State University.