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Caryl Emerson
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<p>Caryl Emerson is an American <a href="/facts/Literary_critic/sj0LQGdF">literary critic</a>, <a href="/facts/Slavist/4sCmJBJq">slavist</a> and <a href="/facts/Translator/2foI82so">translator</a>. She is best known for her books and scholarly commentaries on the Russian philosopher and literary theorist <a href="/facts/Mikhail_Bakhtin/bqDVbyqg">Mikhail Bakhtin</a>. She has translated some of Bakhtin's most influential works, including <i><a href="/facts/Problems_of_Dostoevsky%2527s_Poetics/jdjXS1om">Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics</a></i> and <i><a href="/facts/The_Dialogic_Imagination/rFLPEx95">The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin</a></i>. Emerson was Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at <a href="/facts/Princeton_University/n3EPGHBM">Princeton University</a> from 1988 until her retirement in 2015. From 1980 to 1987 she was a professor of Russian Literature at <a href="/facts/Cornell/FGyXuXeI">Cornell</a>. </p>