Mikhail Epstein is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University USA and Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory at Durham University UK. He has authored 20 books and approximately 600 essays and articles translated into 16 languages. Professor Epstein has won national and international awards including The Andrei Bely Prize (S. -Petersburg 1991); The Social Innovations Award 1995 from the Institute for Social Inventions (London); the International Essay Contest set up by Lettre International and Weimar - Cultural City of Europe 1999; and The Liberty Prize awarded annually for the outstanding contribution to the development of Russian - U. S. cultural relations (New York 2000). Editor and Translator: IIgor E. Klyukanov is Professor of Communication Studies at Eastern Washington University. He has authored more than 100 articles book chapters and books in communication theory semiotics translation studies general linguistics and intercultural communication. His works have been published in U. S. Russia England Spain Costa Rica Serbia Bulgaria India and Morocco. He served as an associate editor of The American Journal of Semiotics and is the founding editor of the Russian Journal of Communication. Author of Foreword: Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University USA. . Language: English