Entered PhD Program in Fall, 2006

Previous Education: BA from Stetson University, 2005, MA from UW-Madison, 2008

Research Interests: Russian poetry and prose (all periods); history of the elegy; Protopope Avvakum, Epiphanius the Wise and Daniil the Exile; Kantemir and Trediakovskii; Vasilii Petrov; Pushkin and Lermontov; Tolstoy; Annenskii, Pasternak, Mandel’shtam, Akhmatova; Tynianov and Eikhenbaum

Hometown: SLC, UT

Minor - Related Field: Latin

Courses taught/positions held: Second-year Russian: Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

Languages: Russian, Old Slavic, Latin

Conference presentations: "To My Verses: Transposition of a Theme in Horace, Kantemir and Brodsky," AAASS, Philadelphia (2008)

Research - Study Abroad: Moscow State University, Department of Philology (2003-2004); MGU, TsMO (2002-2003)

Publications:

Review of Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, A Fallen Idol is Still a God: Lermontov and the Quandaries of Cultural Transition (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007). Slavic and East European Journal 52.2 (2008, forthcoming)

Translation of Ilya Vinitsky, “Behind the Door: A Few Remarks Concerning the Direction of Prince Andrei’s Gaze,” Tolstoy Studies Journal, XIX (2007): 80-86.