Biography
Language: Russian
Research/Language Interests: Romanticism and its legacies, late and post-Soviet culture and society, theater and performance, intersections between literature and contemporary art, aesthetics and critical theory, political theory.
About Me: My research falls into three main areas: Russian Romanticism in its European context; late- and post-Soviet literature and culture; and Russian theater and performance. My first book, Tragic Encounters: Pushkin and European Romanticism (2023), examined Alexander Pushkin’s conception of the tragic in relation to broader Romantic debates about tragedy and the tragic. With Susanna Weygandt, I co-edited New Russian Drama: An Anthology (2019), a major collection of contemporary Russian plays. I am currently completing a second monograph on discourses and practices of collective embodiment in the work of the Moscow Conceptualist art group Inspection “Medical Hermeneutics.” My other publications have addressed the novels of Dmitry Prigov, contemporary performance art, and official performance rituals.
Undergraduate Courses: Survey of 19th Century Russian Literature in Translation (Littrans 201/203), Literature and Revolution (Littrans 238/Slavic 238), Performance and Power (Littrans 239/Slavic 239), Contemporary Russia: History, Politics, Culture (Slavic 243), Chekhov (Littrans 220/Slavic 420), Dostoevsky (Littrans 222/Slavic 422), Russian Capstone Seminar (Slavic 560)
Graduate Seminars: Russian Romanticism (Slavic 703), Critical Theory and Practice (Slavic 801), Contemporary Russian Performance (Slavic 900), Moscow Conceptualism (Slavic 900)
Education:
• Columbia University, Ph.D. (2014)