Valeria Sobol

Valeria Sobol is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition to Febris Erotica, she is the author of articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature on topics ranging from Russian Sentimentalism to Herzen, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. She is currently co-editing a volume of essays entitled Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe.