Ann Komaro­mi is Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in the Cen­tre for Com­par­a­tive Lit­er­a­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. She is author of a book on under­ground nov­els in the Sovi­et Union, Uncen­sored: Samiz­dat Nov­els and the Quest for Auton­o­my in Sovi­et Dis­si­dence (North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2015), which won the AAT­SEEL Award for Best Book in Literary/​Cultural Stud­ies. In 2015, she cre­at­ed the elec­tron­ic archive ​“Project for the Study of Dis­si­dence and Samiz­dat” for the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Library Collections.