Otto Boele is Associate Professor in Russian Literature at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He teaches 19th century literature, post-Soviet culture, and Russian film. He is the author of The North in Russian Romanticism (1996) and Erotic Nihilism in Late Imperial Russia (2009). He is co-editor of Post-Soviet Nostalgia (2019).
Dorine Schellens is Assistant Professor in German and Russian Literature and Culture at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on intersections between contemporary Russian and (East-)German cultural history. She is the author of Kanonbildung im transkulturellen Kontext (2021) on the reception of Moscow conceptualism, and co-editor of Literaturkontakte (2018).