Elizabeth Cheresh Allen is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College; she is also Chair of the Department of Russian and Co-chair of the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Program in Comparative Literature. She is author of" Beyond Realism: Turgenev's Poetics of Secular Salvation "(1992), editor of" The Essential Turgenev "(1994), and coeditor of" Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature "(1995).