Susanne Fusso is a professor in the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University. She is the author of "Designing Dead Souls: An Anatomy of Disorder in Gogol "(Stanford, 1993). She is the translator and editor of "A Russian Prince in the Soviet State: Hunting Stories, Letters from Exile, and Military Memoirs" (2005) and coeditor of "Essays on Karolina Pavlova" (2001) and "Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word "(1994), all published by Northwestern University Press.