Angela Brintlinger, a professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, has been promoted from interim chair to full chair of the department for a four-year term, effective July 1, 2022. Brintlinger also currently serves as the director of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. Brintlinger is an expert on Russian literature and culture from the 18th-21st centuries, literary biography, the representation of madness and of war in literature, food studies and translation. In 2018, her translation of the 1980s book Russian Cuisine in Exile brought the essays of Pyotr Vail and Alexander Genis to an English-speaking audience, narrating everyday experiences and reimagining the identities of immigrants through their engagement with Russian cuisine. Brintlinger earned degrees from Middlebury College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Upon receiving her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1994, she joined the Ohio State faculty.