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Ekaterina S. Purgina is Associate Professor of Philology at the Ural Institute of Humanities (Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia). Her main research interests lie in the sphere of literary and translation studies and cross-cultural communication. She is currently engaged in the research project ‘Varieties of modernity’ (led by Prof. P. Wagner and supported by the Russian Science Foundation).