Elaine Rusinko is Emerita Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. After completing a Ph.D. in Russian literature at Brown University, she authored numerous articles on modernist Russian poetry. Upon the emergence of the Rusyn movement for identity in Eastern Europe in 1989, she turned her attention to Carpatho-Rusyn literature. Rusinko is the author of Straddling Borders: Literature and Identity in Subcarpathian Rus' (2003) and several articles on Rusyn culture. Her translations of contemporary Rusyn literature were published as “God is a Rusyn”: An Anthology of Contemporary Carpatho-Rusyn Literature (2011). Her interest in Andy Warhol and his mother stems from their common Carpatho-Rusyn ethnic background.
