Elena V. Shabliy graduated with honors from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and received her Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Tulane University in 2016. In 2009, she earned a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Tulane. She was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and Columbia University. She is the editor of Representations of the Blessed Virgin Mary in World Literature and Art (Lexington, Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) and co-editor of Emancipation Women’s Writing at Fin de Siècle (Routledge, 2018), Renewable Energy: International Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Global Perspectives on Women's Leadership and Gender (In)Equality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Discourses on Sustainability: Climate Change, Clean Energy, and Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and Women’s Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Lexington, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020). She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University in 2018.