Julie Buckler has spent her academic career at Harvard. She works on nineteenth-century Russian literature, performing arts, and urban cultures. Buckler is the author of two award-winning books: The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia (Stanford, 2000) and Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityscape (Princeton, 2005). In addition to The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel, Buckler has also co-edited two other collection of essays: Rites of Place: Public Commemoration in Russia and Eastern Europe (Northwestern, 2013) and Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action (Wisconsin, 2018).

Justin Weir has been a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University since 2000. His research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Russian novels, literary theory, and Soviet film. His publications include a volume of translations edited and translated with Timothy Langen (Eight Russian Plays, Northwestern UP, 2000), and two monographs devoted to Russian novelists: The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Nabokov, Pasternak, and Bulgakov (Northwestern UP, 2002), and Leo Tolstoy and the Alibi of Narrative (Yale UP, 2011). A Russian translation of The Author as Hero was published by Academic Studies Press in 2022.