Amanda Ewington is Associate Professor and Chair of the Russian Studies Department at Davidson College. She is author of A Voltaire for Russia: A. P. Sumarokov’s Journey from Poet-Critic to Russian Philosophe (Northwestern University Press, 2010). A past president and active member of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association (ECRSA), she has presented numerous papers on Russian women writers. She is currently pursuing a project on women and the stage in eighteenth-century Russia.