Igor E. KlyukanovIgor E. Klyukanov is Professor of Communication Studies at Eastern Washington University. He has authored more than 100 articles, book chapters and books in communication theory, semiotics, translation studies, general linguistics, and intercutural communication. He served as an associate editor of The American Journal of Semiotics and is the founding editor of the Russian Journal of Communication. He is the author A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance (2010), winner of NCA Philosophy of Communication Division 2012 Best Book Award, and the translator and editor of Mikhail Epstein's book The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto (Bloomsbury, 2012). Read More Read Less