Nathan Goldstone is a scholar of Russophone literature from Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the South Caucasus region. His dissertation “Reframing Russophonia: Reflections of Nation, Land, and Self” examined how Russophone cultural production has participated in national identity formation in late Soviet and post-Soviet Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, with case studies that incorporate several interdisciplinary frameworks, including ecocriticism, postcolonial studies, and nuclear humanities. His work has appeared in the Tolstoy Studies Journal and the Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel. He holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, an M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Russian from Middlebury College.