Edith W. Clowes holds the Brown-Forman Chair in the Humanities in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, where she teaches Russian language, literature, and culture, and Czech literature and film. She is author or editor of fifteen books, volumes, and special journal numbers, including Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity (Cornell, 2011; Russian translation, 2020), and, with Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, the volume Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016).

“Shredding the Map is an exciting project that uses a creative mix of geographical, network, and linguistic analysis...this book will provide a wonderful model for future digital work in the Slavic field.”—Seth Bernstein, University of Florida“Shredding the Map shows how a combination of digital humanities and traditional scholarship, of distant and close reading can work.”—Schamma Schahadat, professor of Slavic literature and cultures at the University of Tübingen

Edith W. Clowes holds the Brown-Forman Chair in the Humanities in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, where she teaches Russian language, literature, and culture, and Czech literature and film. She is author or editor of fifteen books, volumes, and special journal numbers, including Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity (Cornell, 2011; Russian translation, 2020), and, with Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, the volume Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016).

“Shredding the Map is an exciting project that uses a creative mix of geographical, network, and linguistic analysis...this book will provide a wonderful model for future digital work in the Slavic field.”—Seth Bernstein, University of Florida“Shredding the Map shows how a combination of digital humanities and traditional scholarship, of distant and close reading can work.”—Schamma Schahadat, professor of Slavic literature and cultures at the University of Tübingen

Edith W. Clowes holds the Brown-Forman Chair in the Humanities in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, where she teaches Russian language, literature, and culture, and Czech literature and film. She is author or editor of fifteen books, volumes, and special journal numbers, including Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity (Cornell, 2011; Russian translation, 2020), and, with Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, the volume Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016).

“Shredding the Map is an exciting project that uses a creative mix of geographical, network, and linguistic analysis...this book will provide a wonderful model for future digital work in the Slavic field.”—Seth Bernstein, University of Florida“Shredding the Map shows how a combination of digital humanities and traditional scholarship, of distant and close reading can work.”—Schamma Schahadat, professor of Slavic literature and cultures at the University of Tübingen