Irina ErmanIrina Erman is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of German and Russian Studies at The College of Charleston, USA. She has published articles on Dostoevsky, 19th and 20th century Russian literature and contemporary literature in <>The Russian Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, and the Russian Literature journal. Her chapter on Gogol and Dostoevsky is forthcoming in The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature. Her article on A. K. Tolstoy won the inaugural Levin Article Prize for best article published in The Russian Review in 2020. Read More Read Less