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ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS

MARK CRUSE has a Ph.D. in French literature from New York University and is assistant professor of medieval French literature at Arizona State University. He translated
Blue: The History of a Color
by Michel Pastoureau.

HILDE HOOGENBOOM received her Ph.D. in Russian literature from Columbia University and teaches Russian and translation at State University of New York at Albany. She has published widely on life writing by Russian women writers and is completing a book on gender, nobility, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Russian literature.

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