Isobel Palmer is an Assistant Professor in Russian in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, where she teaches translation and courses on russophone literature and culture. She is the author of Revolutions in Verse: The Medium of Russian Modernism (Northwestern University Press, 2025). She is currently working on the project, “Russophone Literary Diversity,” a collaboration between researchers at University of Birmingham and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign that aims to decolonise the study of russophone literature and culture by examining texts by minoritized russophone authors, including those who are ‘writing back’ from regions formerly colonized by Russia and those who are living in exile abroad.