Biography
Language: Russian, French
Research/Language Interests: Romanticism and its legacies; late and post-Soviet culture; theater and performance; intersections between literature and contemporary art; critical theory; political theory.
About Me: My research centers on three areas: Russian Romanticism in its European context; late- and post-Soviet culture; and Russian theater and performance. My first book, Tragic Encounters: Pushkin and European Romanticism (2023), examined Alexander Pushkin’s tragic works 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 have also published articles on Russian documentary theater, contemporary performance art, state-sponsored memory rituals, and the novels of Dmitry Prigov. Drawing on my longstanding interest in Moscow Conceptualism, my current book project is provisionally titled The Conceptualist Novel: (Post-)Soviet Literature Between Art and Life.
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)