**About the Editor**

### **Dennis Ioffe**

Prof. Dr. Dennis Ioffe is an Associate Professor of Russian Studies (Titulaire de la Chaire de langue et litterature Russe), D ´ epartement d'enseignement de Langues et Lettres, Facult ´ e de Lettres, ´ Traduction et Communication, Universite libre de Bruxelles. Before coming to ULB Dr Ioffe served ´ as a post-doctoral Research Fellow and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Languages and Cultures (Slavic and East-European), The Faculty of Arts, Ghent University, Belgium. He also served as a Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam's Department of Slavic Languages & Cultures. Since January 2016, Dr. Ioffe is Co-Editor-in-Chief, Russian Literature, Elsevier Science BV. Together with Prof. Petra James, he co-founded a new research center MODERNITAS (La Maison des Sciences Humaines de l'ULB). Since 2017 he is a Senior Scientific Evaluator at The European Commission (EC), The European Innovation Council. Aside from ULB, UvA, UGent, during his career Dennis Ioffe has held lecturing and research appointments at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and Memorial University (Canada).

He has authored over 100 scholarly articles and edited/co-edited a dozen academic collections with major academic publishers in Western Europe and the US. Prof. Ioffe's publications have appeared in "Canadian-American Slavic Studies", "Soviet and Post-Soviet Review", "Oxford University Press", "Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism", "East European Jewish Affairs", "Arts", "Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire", "Russian Studies in Literature", "New Literary Review" (NLO), "Religions", "Studies in Slavic Cultures", "Australian Slavonic and East European Studies", "Neohelicon", "Slavonic and East European Review", "The Journal of European Studies", "Russian Literature" (Elsevier Science), "Slavic & East European Journal", "Acta Semiotica Fennica" and others.
