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Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies; Director of Graduate Studies
B.A. 1986 Brown University;
M.A. in Comparative Literature, 1995 Harvard University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1999 Harvard University
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Research Interests: Nineteenth-century Russian prose; the rise of print culture; theories of the novel; Russian literature in comparative perspective; imaginary geographies.
Affiliations: Modern Languages Association; American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; American Studies Association; American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages
Selected Works:
Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America. Harvard University press, 2006.
"'No, this is not the provinces!': Provincialism, Authenticity and Russianness in Dead Souls." Russian Review, April 2005.
"'To Moscow, I beg you!': Chekhov's Vision of the Russian Provinces." Toronto Slavic Quarterly, Spring 2004.
"Iosif Brodskii kak Amerikanskii poet-laureat (Joseph Brodsky as American Poet-Laureate." Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 56, 2002.
"'Russia! What do you want of me?': The Russian Reading Public in Dead Souls." Slavic Review, Summer 2001.
"'Bound by Blood to the Race': Pushkin in African American Context." Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness. Ed. Nicole Svobodny, Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, and Ludmilla A. Trigos; intro. H. L. Gates. Forthcoming, 2005, Northwestern University Press.
"Soul Man: Alexander Pushkin, the Black Russian." Transition 84, spring 2000. "'Krovno sviazannyi s rasoi': Pushkin v Afro-amerikanskom kontekste" ("'Bound by Blood to the Race': Pushkin in African American Context"). Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie no. 37, 1999.
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