Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University. He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies and co-editor of the book series Literatures, Cultures, Translation (Bloomsbury) and Translation Studies in Translation (Routledge). His publications include the monographs Other Russias, Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature, and Queer Theory and Translation Studies, as well as the collected volumes Beyond the Ivory Tower: Re-thinking Translation Pedagogy, with Geoffrey Koby, Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts: Literary Translation in Eastern Europe and Russia, Researching Translation and Interpreting, with Claudia Angelelli, Translation in Russian Contexts, with Susanna Witt, and Queering Translation, Translating the Queer, with Klaus Kaindl. His most recent translations include Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics, by Juri Lotman, Introduction to Translation Theory, by Andrei Fedorov, and Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko. He is a member of the advisory board of the Mona Baker Centre for Translation Studies, in Shanghai, China, and of the Nida Center for Advanced Research on Translation, in Rimini, Italy. He is the current president of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association.