Witching Hour and Other Plays by Nina Sadur

Born in Riga, Latvia, Nadya L. Peterson was educated in Moscow, Russia and received her Ph.D. in Russian literature from Indiana University. She is currently an Associate Professor of Russian at Hunter College of the City University of New York and the Head of the Russian and Slavic Studies Program at Hunter. Peterson is also on the faculty of the doctoral program in the Department of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a specialist on contemporary Russian prose and women’s literature. Peterson is the author of Subversive Imaginations: Fantastic Prose and the End of Soviet Literature, 1970s-1990s and of a number of articles on various aspects of Russian literature, culture and education. She is a published translator and editor, most recently of Russian Love Stories (Peter Lang, 2009).

“Peering into the abyss, Nina Sadur leads us into the darkness of the human spirit as the Russian literature of Gogol and Dostoevsky has so often done, connecting with her reader both universally and viscerally. Now for the first time, Nadya L. Peterson provides the English speaking reader and audience access to a series of this remarkable author’s plays.”