Halina Stephan is Professor of Russian and Polish Literature and Director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at Ohio State University. She is an author of books LEF and the Left Front of the Arts(1981), Mrożek(1996), Transcending the Absurd: Prose and Drama of Slawomir Mrozek, (1997), and an edited volume Zycie w przekladzie(2001). Her articles focus on Russian avant-garde literature, Russian science fiction, Polish drama and émigré literature.