Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo is Singer-Hill Professor Emerita of Humanities at West Virginia University, where she ran the Russian program until the Department of World Languages was eliminated. She now works for a national environmental organization. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia. Kevin M. Gannon is Director for the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte. He is the author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.