Helena Goscilo, currently the Chairwoman of the Slavic Department at the University of Pittsburgh, specializes in Romanticism, contemporary Russian literature and culture, and Slavic women's writing. Her publications include articles on Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoi, Bulgakov, and Tolstaia, as well as Russian and Polish Women's Fiction (University of Tennessee Press, 1985); Balancing Acts (Indiana University Press, 1989; Dell, 1991); Glasnost: An Anthology of Literature (Ardis, 1990}---with Byron Lindsey; The Wild Beach and Other Stories (Ardis, 1992}---also with Lindsey; Skirted Issues: The Discreteness and Indiscretions of Russian Women's Prose (Russian Studies in Literature, Spring 1992); Lives in Transit (Ardis, 1993). She is working on three monographs, devoted respectively to recent women's fiction, Tat'iana Tolstaia, and Liudmila Petrushevskaia.