Curriculum Vitae

Harvard University, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2002. 

Fields: Russian, English, German

Specialization: Russian literature and the arts, interdisciplinary methodologies, cultural and museum studies, institutions of literature, national identity

Dissertation: "A Nation on Display: Russian Museums and Print Culture in the Age of the Great Reforms" (2002)

Advisors: William Mills Todd III, Donald Fanger, Barbara E. Johnson 

Fordham University, M.A., English, 1993

A. Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia, B.A., Foreign Languages, 1988

Ilya Repin, Portrait of Vladimir Stasov (1889). Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia, 2006- 

Assistant Professor of Russian, Amherst College, 2004-2006 

Lecturer in History and Literature, Harvard University, 2002-2003 

Mikhail Nesterov, Taking of the Veil (1897-98). The Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia 


PUBLICATIONS 

When Art Makes News: Writing Culture and Identity in Imperial Russia, 1851-1900 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, forthcoming Fall 2012)

 

“‘Our Berendeevka’: The Invented Tradition of Russian Modernity,” Canadian-American Slavic Studies 46 (forthcoming 2012) 

“The Firebird of the National Imaginary: The Myth of Russian Culture and its Discontents,” The Journal of European Studies (forthcoming Summer 2012) 

“An Island of Antiquity: The Double Life of Talashkino in Russia and Beyond,” in Rites of Place: Public Commemoration and Celebration in Russia and Beyond, eds. Julie Buckler and Emily Johnson (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming)

“The Return of History: Museum, Heritage, and National Identity in Imperial Russia,” Journal of Eurasian Studies 1 (2010): 111-118

“Muzeinyi vek v Rossii,” Muzeologiia-muzeevedenie v ХХI veke: problemy izucheniia i prepodavaniia (St. Petersburg, 2009), 20-48

 

“Museum and Society in Imperial Russia: An Introduction,” Slavic Review 67, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 907-11

 

“Museum and Story,” This Century’s Review (January 2007) 

“Art and Authority: The Hermitage of Catherine the Great,” The Russian Review 63 (October 2004): 630-54 

“The Feuilleton: An Everyday Guide to Public Culture in the Age of the Great Reforms,” Slavic and East European Journal 47, no. 2 (2003): 186-208

 

“Passage to Europe: Dostoevskii in the St. Petersburg Arcade,” Slavic Review 62, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 237-57

 

“The Museum and the Nation: The Imperial Hermitage in Russian Society,” in The Collections of the Romanovs: European Art from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (London: Merrell, 2003), 36-43

 

“Dostoevskii v Khrustal’nom dvortse,” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 57 (2002): 107-25

 

Review, The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theater and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia by Lurana Donnels O’Malley, for The Russian Review 66, no. 3 (July 2007): 503-04 

Review, Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts, Catriona Kelly and Stephen Lovell, eds., for The Russian Review 60, no. 3 (July 2001): 434-35 

Review, Fenomen Peterburga, Iu. N. Bespiatykh, ed., for Slavic and East European Journal 45, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 182-84

 

“Nation on Display: Museum and Imperial Imagination,” Vanishing Point 2 (Spring 1996): 121-34

 

Konstantin Paustovskii, “Coming of Age” and “Save Your Strength,” translation, in A Century of Russian Lives, Nickolas Lupinin and George Pahomov, eds., (Lanham: University Press of America, 2008)

 

“Central and Northwest Russia,” in Let’s Go: Eastern Europe 1998, ed. Ruth M. Halikman (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998): 554-562, 572-579, 596-631 

COLA 1500: “Life Stories: Why Fiction Matters,” Fall 2011 

USEM 1570: “The Strange Russian Novel,” Spring 2012 

RUTR 2360: “Tales of Transgression,” Spring 2012 

RUSS 5500: “Tales of Transgression,” graduate seminar, Spring 2012 

RUSS 7290: “Medieval and 18th-Century Russian Literature,” Fall 2010 

RUTR 3510-200: “The Art of Scandal: Literature and Culture in Society,” Spring 2010 

RUSS 452: “Vvedenie v russkuiu literaturu (Russkii rasskaz: problematika i poetika zhanra),” Spring 2009 

RUSS 591: “Culture and Identity,” graduate seminar, Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Fall 2011 

RUSS 552: “The Rise of the Russian Novel,” graduate seminar, Fall 2006, Spring 2009 

RUSS 301: “Third-Year Russian,” Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011 

RUSS 452: “Vvedenie v russkuiu literaturu (Iskusstvo i liubov’),” Spring 2007 

RUSS 302: “Third-Year Russian,” Spring 2007, Spring 2010, Spring 2011 

“Russian Literature and Society: The Rise of a National Tradition,” Fall 2004, Fall 2005 

“Third-Year Russian: Studies in Russian Language and Culture,” Fall 2004, Fall 2005

“Dostoevsky: Writer, Critic, Journalist,” Spring 2005, Spring 2006

“Second-Year Russian II,” Spring 2005, Spring 2006 

“Art and Authority,” freshman seminar, Spring 2003 

“History and Literature: Russia,” sophomore seminar, 2001-2002 

“Russia and the West,” junior tutorial, Spring 2001 

“What Makes it Great? Some Masterpieces of Russian Classic Literature,” junior tutorial, Fall 2000 

“Beginning Russian (Intensive),” primary instructor, Spring 2000 

“Lives Ruined by Literature: The Theme of Reading in the Novel” (Prof. Judith Ryan), Fall 1999 

“Versions of Authorship: Literature, History, Theory,” junior tutorial, 1999-2000

“What and How Russia Learned to Read: the Rise of Russian Literary Culture” (Prof. William Mills Todd, III), Spring 1999 

“History and Literature,” senior tutorial. 

Senior honors thesis supervision, “Brodsky vs. Pushkin: Polemical Self-Fashioning,” 1998-1999 

“Dostoevsky” (Prof. Donald Fanger), Spring 1998 

“The City and the Novel: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky” (Prof. Donald Fanger), Fall 1997 

“Literature and Film” (Prof. Svetlana Boym), Fall 1996 

Leonid Solomatkin, The Wedding (1872). Oil on canvas.

Research Support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Virginia, Summer 2011 

Faculty Travel Grant in International Studies, University of Virginia, 2011 

Mead Honored Faculty, The Mead Endowment, University of Virginia, 2010-2011 

Richard D. Donchian Faculty Fellowship in Ethics, Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life (IPE), University of Virginia, 2010 

The University Teaching Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2010-2011 (declined) 

Research Support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Virginia, Summer 2010 

Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia, Summer 2009 

Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia, Summer 2008 

Research Support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Virginia, Spring 2008 

ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship, 2008 

Sesquicentennial Associateship, University of Virginia, 2007-2008 

Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia, Summer 2007 

Faculty Research Award, Amherst College, 2005 

Social Science Research Council Predoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2002 

Packard Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, 2000-2001 

Graduate Student Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 1999-2000 

Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship, Harvard University, 1999 

Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 1999 

Merit Fellowship, Harvard University, 1998-1999 

Graduate Writing Fellow, Derek Bok Center, Harvard University, 1998 

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000 

Abby and George O’Neill Research Travel Grant, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 1996; 1999 

German Language Training Grant, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Summer 1996 

Harvard Grant, Harvard University, 1995-1997 

Presidential Scholarship, Fordham University, 1991-1994 

Yakov Kapkov, The Bride (1851)

“The Rise of the Museum in Russia,” Elizabeth B. Neatrour Russian Studies Lecture Series, James Madison University, October 2010 

"Russia's New Museum Age and Post-Soviet Cultural Identity: Between Globalization and National Pride," Faculty Seminar Abroad, University of Richmond, February 2009 

Tomb of V. V. Stasov, Aleksandro-Nevskaia lavra

“‘Our Berendeevka’: The Invented Tradition of Russian Modernity,” National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Washington, DC, November 2011 

“Writing Russian Antiquity: The National Revival and the Press,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Boston, MA, November 2009 

"The New Capital of Culture: The Museum Age and the Moscow Renaisance in 19th- Century Russia," Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), Charlottesville, VA, March 2009 

"The Double Life of the Fairy-Tale Kingdom: Reception of Princess Tenisheva's Talashkino in Russia and Abroad," National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Philadelphia, PA, November 2008 

“The Rise of a National Culture,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), New Orleans, LA, November 2007 

“Art for the Public? The Russian Museum of Alexander III,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Salt Lake City, UT, November 2005 

“The Russian Minerva: Catherine the Great and Her Hermitage Museum,” Queens, Queens, Queens and Empresses Symposium, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, October 2005

 

“Writing Russian Culture,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Boston, MA, December 2004 

“The Russian Historical Museum as Fact and Symbol,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Pittsburgh, PA, November 2002 

“The Traveling Crystal Palace,” MLA Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, December 2001 

“The Hermitage of Catherine the Great: the Myths and Meanings of the Great Museum,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), New Orleans, December 2001 

“Representing the Nation: the Academy of Fine Arts during the Great Reforms,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Crystal City, VA, November 2001 

“The Monument and the Nation: Russia at the Millennium, 1862,” Slavic Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2001 

“The Feuilleton as an Everyday Guide to the Culture of Mid-Nineteenth-Century St. Petersburg,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Denver, CO, November 2000 

“Passage to Europe: Dostoevsky in the St. Petersburg Arcades,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), Chicago, IL, December 1999 

“‘Museum as Muse’: Literary Compilations of the Russian Enlightenment,” Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Durham, NH, December 1999 

“A Curious Collection: Things and Texts of the Kunstkamera,” National Convention of the AAASS, St. Louis, MO, November 1999 

“Museum as Text: Material Artifacts in the Interdisciplinary Classroom,” History and Literature Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, September 1999 

“Dostoevsky’s “Crocodile” in the St. Petersburg Passage: A Russian Spectacle?” Nineteenth Century Studies Association 19th Annual Conference Nineteenth-Century Spectacles, Philadelphia, PA, March 1999 

“Kunstkamera: Collecting Material and Literary Artifacts in Eighteenth-Century Russia,” Slavic Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, November 1998 

“At the Heart of the Nation: Mausoleum for the People,” National Convention of the AAASS, Boston, MA, November 1996 

“Touring the Sepulcher of Soviet Culture: Hammer and Sickle” (Ekskursiia v usypal’nitsu Sovetskoi kul’tury: Serp i Molot), International conference “Post-Socialist Culture in a Global Context,” St. Petersburg, Russia, July 1996 

“Translating Russia: Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes,” International Conference on Narrative Literature, Vancouver, Canada, April 1994 

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia, Fall 2011– 

Panel Chair, “The Paradox of Plot in Tolstoy’s Novels,” National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Washington, DC, November 2011 

Member of the Assessment Committee, Assessment of Undergraduate Literature Program at the University of Virginia, Spring 2011 

Panel Discussant, “Mapping Outside Influences in Literary Works,” University of Virginia Slavic Forum, Charlottesville, VA, February 2011 

Member of Ad Hoc Committee charged with recommending the next chair of Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2011 

Instructor, Independent Study “Turgenev and Nature” with Oguljan Reyimbaeva, Spring 2011 

Summer Orientation Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, Summer 2010 

Presenter, Seminars in Professional Development (Workshop No. 4: The Dissertation), The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Society of Slavic 

Graduate Students, University of Virginia, March 2010 

Consultant, The Hermitage Film Project, dir. Robert Gardner, Spring 2010 

Panel Discussant, “Russian Culture,” University of Virginia Slavic Forum, Charlottesville, VA, February 2010 

Roundtable Presenter, “In Honor of William Mills Todd III: Fiction, Society, Ideology II,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Boston, MA, November 2009 

Lower Division Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, Fall 2009- 

Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spring 2009 

Participant, “We Astound the Universe: Poetry and Performance,” poetry reading in celebration of the University of Virginia Art Museum’s exhibition: El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios, November 18, 2008 

Guest Editor of Special Section, “Displaying the Nation and Modernity in Russia: Directions in Russian Museum Studies,” Slavic Review 67, no. 4 (Winter 2008) 

Graduate Student Forum on current job market, Slavic Department, University of Virginia, October 2007 

Organizer, Guest Lecture by A. Hilton at University of Virginia, “‘The Pride of Our Country’: How Museums Frame Culture and Identity,” November 1, 2007 

Organizer, Guest Lecture by A. Yurchak at University of Virginia, “Necro-Utopia: The Politics of Indistinction and the Art of the ‘Non-Soviet’ in the 1980s Leningrad,” April 23, 2007 

Co-chair, Graduate Program Assessment Committee, Slavic Department, University of Virginia, Spring 2007 

Russian Language Exam Coordinator, Slavic Department, University of Virginia, 2007-2009 

Manuscript Reviewer, Slavic Review, January 2007 

Organizer and Coordinator, “Interdisciplinary Group for Museum Studies,” AAASS Affiliate Institution, Fall 2006 

Roundtable Organizer and Presenter, “Museums and Exhibitions in Imperial Russia,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Washington, DC, November 2006 

Panel Chair, “Catherine the Great and Art,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Washington, DC, November 2006 

Organizer and Facilitator, Occasional Seminar “Post-Soviet Russian Identity,” Russian House, University of Virginia, November 1, 2006 

Regular participation in preparation and evaluation of MA and PhD language exams and comprehensive exams, Slavic Department, University of Virginia, 2006 – to present

Guest Speaker, Russian House, University of Virginia, October 10, 2006 

Departmental Faculty Secretary, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia. Record and maintain official minutes of faculty meetings, September 2006 – to present 

Resident Tutor, Currier House (Harvard University Undergraduate Residence). Advised students, organized and ran Russian language table humanities-oriented extracurricular activities, July 2001-June 2003 

Member, Committee on Instruction, History and Literature, Harvard University. Curriculum development, planning special events, conducting oral examinations, 2002-2003 

Presenter, “Discussion Leading in the Humanities,” Winter Teaching Orientation, The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, January 30, 2001 

Panelist, “Teaching Comparative Literature/Comparativists Teaching Literature,” The Comparative Literature Colloquium, Harvard University, October 31, 2000 

Organizer and coordinator, “Lost and Found: A Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference”; moderator of conference panel “Narratives of Collecting,” Harvard University, 8 April 2000 

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) 

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) 

Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) 

Modern Language Association (MLA) 

Konstantin Korovin, A Northern Idyll (1886). Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE 

Voicer, Fairfield Language Technologies, Harrisonburg, VA, January 2007 

Interpreter, American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA, Summer 1999 

Writer-Researcher, Let’s Go Publications, Cambridge, MA, Summer 1997 

Translator, Intourist Travel Bureau, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1989-1991 

Russian (native); English (near-native); German (proficient); French (reading) 

Vasily Sadovnikov, View of the Passazh Department Store (1848)