Elaine Rusinko is associate professor emerita of Russian language and literature at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Straddling Borders: Literature and Identity in Subcarpathian Rus', which offers a comprehensive literary history of the region. She has also published translations of contemporary literature in "God is a Rusyn" An Anthology of Contemporary Carpatho-Rusyn Literature. Rusinko's interest in Andy Warhol and his mother arises from their shared Carpatho-Rusyn heritage.