Robert Porter was Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature, then Personal Chair, at the University of Bristol; thereafter Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His publications include Four Contemporary Russian Writers (1989), Russia's Alternative Prose (1994), and translations of Evgenii Popov: The Soul of a Patriot (1994), Merry-Making in Old Russia (1996), Vladimir Voinovich's By Means of Mutual Correspondence (1996, also available from Bloomsbury).
