EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from University of Pittsburgh, 2004.


TEACHING INTERESTS
  • Contemporary Russian literature
  • The Russian novel
  • Russian language
  • Russian folklore


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Contemporary Russian literature
  • Studies of everyday life
  • Women’s prose


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Prose of Life: Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009)

“Mother, Daughter, History: Embodying the Past in Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Sonechka and The Case of Kukotskii.” Slavic and East European Journal 4 (2009)

“Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Literature of Tolerance.” The Russian Review 68 (2009)

“Writing the Urals: Permanence and Ephemerality in Ol'ga Slavnikova’s 2017.” New Zealand Slavonic Journal 41 (2007).


WORKS IN PROGRESS

Along with Elizabeth Skomp (University of the South) currently working on the first book-length study of the contemporary Russian author Liudmila Ulitskaia.