Carol Any taught at Trinity College from 1984 to 2025, training generations of students in the Russian language. Beyond language study, her first-year seminar on The Brothers Karamazov and her courses on War and Peace and Anna Karenina put students in dialogue with Russian literary giants Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Her research combines aesthetic theory, the relationship between the arts and ideology, and the lives and moral choices of writers living under political repression. She is the author of Boris Eikhenbaum: Voices of a Russian Formalist (Stanford University Press, 1994) and The Soviet Writers’ Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin (Northwestern University Press, 2020; winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies).