Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour is the author of The Invisible Land: The Artistic Imagination of Iurii Olesha and Alien Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the “First” Emigration.

She is a professor in the Division of Russian and Slavic Languages at Hunter College, where she has also served as Acting Provost and Chair of the Academic Senate and is the long-term chair of the College’s interdisciplinary Thomas Hunter Honors Program. She is also a member of the faculty of the Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.