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Elena Fratto is Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (2021) and coeditor of Russian Literature of the Anthropocene (special double issue of Russian Literature, June-July 2020). Her research and publications address the rhetorical, stylistic, and structural intersections of literature and science, with a specific focus on medicine, astronomy, and non- Euclidean geometries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has also published on Boris Eikhenbaum, Formalist fiction and the visual arts, the post-Soviet Kitsch aesthetics, and Russian literature and music. She holds an MA in history of science (2013) and a PhD in comparative literature (2016) from Harvard University, in addition to a PhD in Slavic languages and literatures (2009) from the University of Milan.