Courses Taught
- Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced, 4th-year Russian
- Literary Readings in Russian
- History of Russian Film
- Dostoevsky: The Major Novels
- The Russian Short Story
- Masterpieces of 19th-century Russian Literature
- Early Russian Culture (to 1825)
- Modern Russian Culture (since 1825)
- Vampire: Blood and Empire
- Russian Fairy Tales
Dissertation
The Post-Soviet condition: Cultural Reconfigurations of Russian National Identity, 2006
Employment Since Graduation
- Defense Language Institute, Washington DC, Associate Professor, 2017 -
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, Lecturer and Russian Language Coordinator, Sept. 2007 – April 2017.
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, Visiting Lecturer in Russian, Sept. 2006 – April 2007.
“Dark World.” Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2. UK: Intellect. 2015.
"Commissar,” “4.” 100 Russian Films: The Canon of the Russian Cinema. Vinnitsa: Globus.
“Viktor Olegovich Pelevin.” Russian Writers Since 1980.
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
“Viktor Pelevin and the End of Sots-Art.” Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and the Soviet Grand Style. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2000.
"Pushkin in the Work of Andrei Platonov." Graduate Essays on Slavic Languages and Literature Pittsburgh: Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1994.
Representative Conference Presentations
“Returning to Chechnya: The Case of Mikhalkov.” Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies, 2010.
“You Never Loved Me: Maternal Abandonment and Russian Identity in Cinema under Putin.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2009.
“Welcome Back: The Return of Chechnya to Russian Cinema.” Modern Language Association, 2008.
“Boris Frumin's Aesthetic of Anti-Nostalgia.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2007.
“Political Violence in the Films of Shakhnazarov.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2006.