Timothy Pogačar received a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Kansas and undergraduate degrees in Russian and Spanish from Georgetown University. He has translated widely from Russian and Slovene, completing eight Slovene-English book-length translations since 2013, the most recent of which is Ivan Tavčar’s Visoko Chronicle. Current research is on fiction in émigré newspapers and sound preferences for characters’ names. Pogačar has edited the journal Slovene Studies since 1986. At Bowling Green SU, he teaches all levels of Russian language and courses on Russian culture, post-communist Russia, and Eastern Europe.