Emily D JohnsonEmily D. Johnson is the Brian and Sandra O' Brien Professor of Russian at the University of Oklahoma. She earned a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from Columbia University. Along with Julie Buckler, she coedited the volume Rites of Place: Public Commemortion in Russia and Eastern Europe (Northwestern University Press, 2013). She also served as the editor and translator for Arsenii Formakov, Gulag Letters (Yale University Press, 2017). She is co-editor, along with Alan Barenberg, of the volume Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (Indiana University Press, 2022). She works on St. Petersburg in Russian history and literature, the history of the Soviet labor camp system, and also on contemporary Russian popular culture. Read More Read Less