Jon Stone (he/him) is Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Russian at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. He studies early Russian modernism, European decadence, and the print and material culture of the fin de siècle. He is the author of The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature (Scarecrow Press, 2013), The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism (Northwestern University Press, 2017), and Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s (Palgrave, 2019). He has published articles on Russian Symbolism, decadence, the history of the book, and Mikhail Bakhtin in PMLA, The Russian Review, Modernism/Modernity, and the Slavic and East European Journal.

Dr. Stone serves on numerous F&M and professional committees and projects that have worked to innovate the liberal arts curriculum, study and promote interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship, and foster community engagement through the humanities. He has also chaired the Department of German, Russian & East Asian Languages and the Program in Comparative Literary Studies and served as Co-Director of the F&M Humanities Initiative. 

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