Edith W. Clowes holds the Brown-Forman Chair in the Humanities in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, where she teaches Russian language, literature, and culture, and Czech literature and film. She is author or editor of fifteen books, volumes, and special journal numbers, including Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity (Cornell, 2011; Russian translation, 2020), and, with Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, the volume Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016).
