John Dunn taught for thirty years at the University of Glasgow, where he specialized in Russian and Polish languages, Slavonic linguistics, and the Russian mass media. Initially he concentrated his attention on Russian historical linguistics, but more recently has been examining changes in the Russian language since 1990 with particular reference to the role of English. With his erstwhile colleague Shamil Khairov he co-authoredModern Russian Grammar(Routledge, 2009), the associatedWorkbook(Routledge, 2011), andRussian For All Occasions(Routledge, 2019). At present he is compiling the Russian entries for GLAD (a global database of Anglicisms).

Marina Rojavin teaches at Bryn Mawr College. She specializes in Russian language, culture, and cinema. She has published articles on the semantic category of gender in Russian and Ukrainian and on the grammatical category of gender in Russian. She and her colleagues publishedRussian for Advanced Students (2013). Her most recent publications areWomen in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods(Routledge, 2017) andSoviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s: Conformity and Non-Conformity Amidst Decay(Routledge 2021) co-edited with Tim Harte;Russian Nouns of Common Gender in Use(Routledge, 2019) andRussian Function Words: Meanings and Use(Routledge 2019), both completed with Alexander Rojavin; andRussian Syntax for Advanced Students(Routledge, 2022).