Galya Diment is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington, USA, where she teaches Russian and comparative literature. The author of The Autobiographical Novel of Co-Consciousness: Goncharov, Woolf and Joyce (1994), Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel (1997, 2013) and A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky (2011, 2013), Diment has published more than fifty articles. In addition, she has edited/co-edited Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture (1993), Goncharov’s ‘Oblomov’: A Critical Companion (1998), MLA Approaches to Teaching ‘Lolita’ (2008) and Katherine Mansfield and Russia (2017). Her articles have also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Magazine and New York Magazine.