09/28/2021In 2018, when Jon Stone, associate professor of Russian and Russian studies said, embarked on his project to translate a series of Russian stories by poet and novelist Andrei Bely, he started with the assistance of Isabelle Roman ’20, whose eight weeks of work that summer produced a body of research that helped him land a publishing contract. “She and I worked together on the very early stages of this project,” Stone said. “Along with my sample translation, the notes that she had come up with were the things that I first took to the publisher.”Peter DurantineRussian and Russian Studies