Svetlana Efimova Editor

Svetlana Efimova is an Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Media Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Her research encompasses Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian literature and culture, with particular focus on the interplay between aesthetics and politics, contemporary children’s literature, intermediality, transcultural writing, and generative artificial intelligence.

Marina Balina is Isaac Funk Professor Emerita and Professor of Russian Studies, Illinois Wesleyan University, USA. The focus of her scholarship is on historical and theoretical aspects of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian children’s literature and culture.