Zaya Vandan was awarded her PhD in Literature (2016) from Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary). Her main research area is nineteenth-century Russian literature, focusing on the poetics and reception of Dostoevsky’s works in Hungary and Mongolia. She specialises in the theory and practice of cultural translation within Translation Studies.
Muireann Maguire is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter. Her research interests include nineteenth-century Russian literature, the translation and reception of Russian literature in Western Europe, and the representation of maternal subjectivity in fiction. Besides a newly minted passion for collecting vintage paperbacks, she is starting a new project about William Golding’s reception of Tolstoy. She is currently completing a monograph about the history of literary translation from Russian in the US, provisionally titled The Spectre of Nicholas Wreden: Translating Russian Literature in Twentieth-Century America, 1886-1986 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).