A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, Svetlana Evdokimova holds PhD from Yale University in Slavic Languages and Literatures and is currently professor of Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her main areas of scholarly interest include, Pushkin, Russian and European Romanticism, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, relations between fiction and history, and gender and sexuality in Russian and European literatures. She is the author of Pushkin¿s Historical Imagination (Yale University Press), Alexander Pushkin¿s Little Tragedies: The Poetics of Brevity, ed. (Wisconsin University Press), and of the wide range of articles on Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. She is currently writing a book on Chekhov¿s relationship with the Russian intelligentsia and its impact on the formation of his literary self.