Mirja LeckeMirja Lecke is professor of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Her academic interests include Polish literature as well as Russian literature of the imperial and post 1991 eras in their entanglements withneighboring cultures. She is the author of Westland. [Polen und die Ukraine in der russischen Literatur von Puskin bis Babel]' (Peter Lang, 2015), a monograph about the representation of the Western borderlands in Russian imperial literature, and with Elena Chkhaidze she co-edited [Rossiia - Gruziia posle imperii] Russia--Georgia after empire (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018), a volume on Russian-Georgian literary relations in the post-Soviet era. Read More Read Less