Prof. Elena Bollinger holds a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon. She is an Invited Assistant Professor of English Studies at the University of Madeira, Portugal. She is also a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, and a member of the interdisciplinary project entitled ‘Shared Memories: Literature and Cultures in English and Portuguese’. Close to both the Centre for Slavic Languages and Cultures and the Centre for Comparative Studies, she has been working on intercultural research involving memory, history, and (trans)national identity within the scope of literary representations. She is also a member of the Memory Studies Association. Her recent publications include several articles in International Academic Journals and a book entitled Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue: The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory. Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2022, Routledge).