Bronislava Volkova bilingualpoet, semiotician, translator,collagist, essayist and ProfessorEmerita of Indiana University,Bloomington, USA, whereshe was a Director of theCzech Program at the SlavicDepartment for thirty years.She is a member of Czechand American PEN Club. Shewent into exile in 1974, taughtat the Universities of Cologneand Marburg and subsequentlyat Harvard and University ofVirginia in Charlottesville.