Education & Training
- PhD, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 2016
- MA, Russian Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 2011
- BA, Russian Studies, Williams College, 2007
Courses Taught
- Russian Fairy Tales
- Masterpieces of 20th Century Russian Literature
- Madness and Madmen in Russian Culture
- Elementary Russian
- Intermediate Russian
Representative Publications
Article: "Ivan Golovnev: The Taiga's Activist Ethnographic Filmmaker" KinoKultura 41 (2013)
Review: "Spotlights on Russian and Balkan Slavic Cultural History" for The Slavic and East European Journal 56.1 (Spring 2012)
Review: "Spotlights on Russian and Balkan Slavic Cultural History" for The Slavic and East European Journal 56.1 (Spring 2012)
Review: "Six Degrees of Celebration 2" for KinoKultura 36 (Spring 2012)
Research Interests
- Contemporary Russian Cinema
- Object Oriented Ontology
- Digital Media
- Documentary Cinema
- Russian and Soviet Culture
Representative Conference Presentations
"Object Perspective and the Films of Timur Bekmambetov" ASEEES 2012
The Sound of Fury: Music in Balabanov’s Films.” AATSEEL, Seattle. January 2012
“A Short Course in Russian Hip-Hop.” Dickinson College. October 28, 2011
“A Breath of Fresh Oxygen: Ivan Vyrypaev’s Postmodernism.” ASEEES, Washington, DC. November 2011
“The Roots of Russian Hip-Hop.” ASEEES, Los Angeles. November 2010
Employment Since Graduation
Novetta Advanced Analytics (Media Analyst)
Dissertation Title and Year
Global Russian Cinema in the Digital Age: The Films of Timur Bekmambetov, 2016