Courses Taught
- Russian language of all levels; translation
- 19th and 20th century literature
- Russian and Soviet film
- Philosophy and Literature
Dissertation
Between Philosophies: The Emergence of a New Intellectual Paradigm in Russia, 2010
Employment Since Graduation
- Associate Professor of Russian, Dickinson College, 2016 – present
- Assistant Professor of Russian, Dickinson College, 2010 – 2016
- PhD (with honors), Russian Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 2010
- MA, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 2006
- BA, Philosophy and Russian Area Studies, Villanova University, 2003
Education & Training
The Filmmaker’s Philosopher: Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)
“Merab Mamardashvili on Film: Cinema as a Metaphor for Consciousness,” Studies in East European Thought 71. 3 (Oct. 2019): pp. 217-227.
The End of Russian Philosophy: Tradition and Transition at the Turn of the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2014).
“‘Nothing in Life But Death’: Aleksandr Zel’dovich’s Target in Conversation with Tolstoy’s Philosophy on the Value of Death,” Russian Review (July 2014).
“The New-Year Film as a Genre of Post-War Russian Cinema.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 2.1 (January 2008): 43-61.
“Choreographing Space, Time, and Dikovinki in the Films of Evgenii Bauer.” The Russian Review (October 2007): 671-92.
Representative Conference Presentations
“Herzen’s ‘Letter to Jules Michelet’,” Harvard Intellectual History Symposium, March 2019.
“Roundtable: Socrates in Russia,” ASEEES (San Francisco, CA), Nov. 2019.
“Mamardashvili and the History of Philosophy,” Writing a University History of Soviet Philosophy (University of Padova, Italy), Oct. 2016.
“Soviet Philosophy on the Russian Screen,” ASEEES (New Orleans, LA), Nov. 2012.
- Contemporary Russian philosophy
- Recent Russian cinema
- Intersections of philosophy, film, and literature