Fiona Bell is a scholar and translator of Russophone literature. She is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Fiona Bell

Julia Phillips is the author of the novel&nbsp;Disappearing Earth. Her writing has appeared in&nbsp;The Atlantic,&nbsp;Slate, and&nbsp;The Moscow Times, and been supported by a Fulbright fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn.

Julia Phillips

<div class="gmail_default">Hilah Kohen is a translator and doctoral student working primarily in Russian and the Kavkazi Jewish language Juhuri. Before joining the&nbsp;comparative literature program at the&nbsp;University of Pennsylvania, she covered Russian politics as an editor and translator for the Riga- and Moscow-based media outlet Meduza. With Josephine von Zitzewitz, she co-edited the February 2021 issue of Words Without Borders, which features young Russophone writers in English translation.</div>

Hilah Kohen

<h4>Jennifer Wilson is a postdoctoral fellow for Academic Diversity in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on two books: Radical Chastity: Abstinence and the Political Imagination in 19th-century Russia and Writing a Free Society: Abolitionist Literature in Russia.</h4>

Jennifer Wilson

Literature in a Time of Collusion: A Conversation Between Jennifer Wilson, Hilah Kohen, Julia Phillips, and Fiona Bell

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Hilah Kohen is a translator and doctoral student working primarily in Russian and the Kavkazi Jewish language Juhuri. Before joining the&nbsp;comparative literature program at the&nbsp;University of Pennsylvania, she covered Russian politics as an editor and translator for the Riga- and Moscow-based media outlet Meduza. With Josephine von Zitzewitz, she co-edited the February 2021 issue of Words Without Borders, which features young Russophone writers in English translation.