Alyssa Deblasio, PhD, is the John B. Parsons Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences and an associate professor of Russian at Dickinson College. She is the author of two monographs, The End of Russian Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and The Filmmaker’s Philosopher: Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).Iza Savenkova is a lecturer in Russian in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University. She is also a regular summer faculty member at the Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian at Middlebury College. Since 2022, she has served on the Board of Directors for the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR).