Maria Khotimsky is Senior Lecturer in Russian in the Global Languages Department at MIT. She is the co-editor of The Poetry and Poetics of Olga Sedakova: Origins, Philosophies, Points of Contention (2019) and Olga Sedakova: stikhi, smysly, prochteniia (2017). Her research interests include literary translation, content-based language pedagogy, and translingual poetry.

Friederike Reents is Full Professor in German Literature in German Department at Eichstätt University She is the co-editor of Autor und Subjekt im Gedicht - Positionen, Perspektiven und Praktiken heute (Lyrikforschung. Neue Arbeiten zur Theorie und Geschichte der Lyrik, Bd. 1) (2021) and Lyrik und Erkenntnis (2019). Her research interests include lyricology, environmental humanities, and literary translation.

William Waters teaches German & Comparative Literature and Translation at Boston University. He is the author of Poetry's Touch: On Lyric Address and numerous essays on poetics and on Rilke. He serves on the board of the Internationale Rilke-Gesellschaft, and co-founded the International Network for the Study of Lyric (lyricology.org).

Henrieke Stahl-Schwaetzer is Professor of Slavic Literary Studies at the University of Trier and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Comparative Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on Russian symbolism, philosophy, and poetry. She is author of the monograph Sophia in the Thought of Vladimir Solov'ev: An Aesthetic Reconstruction.