Courses Taught
- Russian language (beginning, intermediate, advanced)
- Advanced Conversation and Communication through Jokes, Comedy, and Satire
- 19th-20th Century Russian Literature
- Narrating the City: Soviet Urban Culture and the 20th Century
- Narrating the City: The Art of St. Petersburg (abroad)
- History of Russian Film
- Russian Myths and Legends
- Sci-Fi East and West
Dissertation
Queuetopia: Second-World Modernity and the Soviet Culture of Allocation, 2013
Employment Since Graduation
- Director of Nationally Competitive Awards, University of Texas at San Antonio (https://honors.utsa.edu/onca/)
- Lead Editor of Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (https://digitalicons.org/)
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Director of Russian Language Abroad Program, Dartmouth College (2016-17)
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Studies, College of William and Mary (2015-2016)
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College (2013-2015)
- PhD, Russian Literature, 2013
- MA, Slavic Languages and Literatures (Russian Literature), University of Pittsburgh, 2007
- BA, Russian, University of Rochester, 2004
Education & Training
“Let there be Abundance! But Leave a Shortage of Something!: Distinction, Subjectivity, and the Brezhnev Era Culture of Scarcity.” Slavic & East European Journal 61.3 (2017): 519-541.
“The Digital Queue: Flashmobs in Line, Online, and the New Aesthetics of Community Building.” Digital Icons 17 (2017): 19-32.
“Car with a Movie Camera: Theorizing the Dash-cam, Cameraman Surrogates, and the Cameraman Caught Unaware.” Digital Icons 15 (2016): 1-20.
“Changing the Terms of Engagement: Recruiting and Politicizing the Cameraman and the Aesthetics of Amateur Filmmaking in Recent Projects by Pavel Kostomarov, Aleksandr Rastorguev and Aleksei Pivovarov.” Digital Icons 11 (2014): 96-112.
"Trofeinost' and the Phantasmagoria of Everyday Consumption in Late Soviet Culture." Studies in Slavic Cultures 11 (2013): 24-49.
Performing 'Soviet' Film Classics: Tajik Jimmy and the Aural Remnants of Indian Cinema." Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 7.2 (2013): 227-242
Representative Conference Presentations
“From Ochered' to Ocherednost': Narratives of Queuing and Waiting in Late Soviet Culture.” (AATSEEL 2011)
“From Kul'turnost' to Trofeinost': The Phantasmagoria of Everyday Consumption in Stagnation Culture.” (AATSEEL 2012)
“The Last in Line: Narratives of Queuing and Waiting in Soviet Literature and Culture” (Cultural Studies Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh 2010)
“Locating Individual and Collective Subjectivities: Queuing and Second World Modernity in Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem” (Mid-Atlantic ASEEES Regional Conference 2009)
“Space and Portraiture in the Films of Larisa Sadilova” (ASEEES National Convention 2006)
- Contemporary Russian and Soviet Film
- Urban culture, crowd studies and theories of gueuing
- Narratives of everyday life
- Russian and Soviet Satire
- Kitsch and camp in popular culture