Ellen E. Berry is Professor of English and American Culture Studies and Director of the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society at Bowling Green State University, USA. Her books include "Curved Thought and Textual Wandering: Gertrude Stein's Postmodernism "and (as co-author with Mikhail Epstein) "Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication". She is editor of the journal 'Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge'.