Courses Taught
- Sci-Fi: East and West
- Masterpieces 20th Century Russian Literature (Intensive Writing Course)
- Forbidden Love on Page and Screen
- Madness and Madmen in Russian Culture
- Russian Fairy Tales
- Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 2019
- M.A. Russian Languages and Literatures, Yonsei University, Russia, 2008
- B.A. Russian Languages and Literatures, Yonsei University, Russia, 2005
Education & Training
Representative Publications
2015 “Geo-Cultural Mapping of the Imperial Gift and its Post-Soviet Identity.” Studies in Slavic Cultures 12 (2015): 6-54.
Representative Conference Presentations
"(Un)making Monuments and Places of Memory." ASEEES Conference, San Fransisco, 2019.
"Making the Historic City Global and Postmodern." CSA Conference, New Orleans, 2019.
"Claiming the Wall." AATSEEEL Conference, San Fransisco, 2017.
"Periphery or Center? Museumified St. Petersburg in Contemporary Films." ASEEES Conference, San Antonio, 2014.
"A Moment of Gaze: Utopian Temporality in Stalinist Architecture." ASEEES Conference, Boston, 2013.
"Collection and Recollection for a Void in Dead Souls.' AATSEEL Annual Conference. Boston. 5 January 2013
Research Interests
- Imaginative geography, city and museum studies
- Monuments and memory
- Petersburg text
- Petersburg/Leningrad films, Aleksei Balabanov