По, Бодлер, Достоевский: Блеск и нищета национального гения

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.

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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.

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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.”

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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).

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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.

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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.

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