Catherine O’Neil is Professor of Russian Language and Culture at the United States Naval Academy. She received her Master’s in Russian literature from the University of Toronto and her doctorate from the University of Chicago. She has written on Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian and European romanticism, and currently works on contemporary Ukrainian literature and Translation Studies. She has translated Alexei Nikitin’s The Face of Fire (with Dominique Hoffman; Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2024) and is translating Victory Park.