David Houston
Email address: dchouston@wisc.edu
title/status/year of entrance: Entered PhD Program in Fall, 2006
Research Interests: Classical and Old-Russian subtexts in modern Russian poetry; Protopope Avvakum, Epiphanius the Wise and Daniil the Exile; Blok, Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva; Tolstoy; everything Pushkin; the Golden Age of Roman poetry; Losev and Eliade; Bloom, agon and the Canon’s last stand
Hometown: SLC, UT
Minor - Related Field: Latin
Languages: Russian, Old Slavic, Latin
Research - Study Abroad: Moscow State University, Department of Philology (2003-2004); MGU, TsMO (2002-2003)