Courses Taught
- Russian Fairy Tales
- Masterpieces of 20th Century Russian Literature
- Behind Bars: Cross Cultural Representations of Prison in the 20th Century
- Early Russian Culture
- Beginning Russian
Employment
Training Specialist in English for Speakers of Other Languages, Cuyahoga Community College
Dissertation
Visualizing the Past: Perestroika Documentary Memory of Stalin-era Trauma, 2014
- PhD, Slavic Languages and Literatures (Russian Literature) University of Pittsburgh, 2014
- MA, Slavic Languages and Literatures (Russian Literature) University of Pittsburgh, 2009
- BA, Russian Studies and Film Studies minor, College of William and Mary, 2007
Education & Training
“Reinventing Soviet visual memory: a case study of Marina Goldovskaya’s documentary Solovki Power.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 7.2 (July 2013): 207-226.
“The visual in documentary: Sergei Loznitsa and the importance of the image.” Studies in Documentary Film 7.2 (June 2013): 135-146.
Review: “Egor Baranov: Nightingale the Robber.” KinoKultura 40 (April 2013)
Review: “Marek Haltof: Polish Film and the Holocaust.” Slavic and East European Journal 57.1 (Spring 2013): 129-130.
“Survival and Community in Memoirs of the Holocaust in Poland.” Studies in Slavic Cultures 9 (2010): 26-41.
Representative Conference Presentations
“Seventy Years of the Revolution: Marina Babak’s More Light.” ASEEES Conference, November 2013
“Sergei Loznitsa: Russian Documentary Auteur.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 2013
“Renegotiating the Boundaries of Documentary in the 21st Century.” ASEEES Conference, November 2012
“Revolutionary and Reactionary Reality: The Evolution of Soviet and Post-Soviet Documentary Cinema.” AATSEEL Conference, January 2012
“Survival and Community in Memoirs of the Holocaust in Poland.” AATSEEL Conference, December 2009
- Documentary cinema
- The Soviet Gulag
- Holocaust Studies
- Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Russian Culture