Areas of Interest

The relationship between Romanticism, Gothicism, and Decadence in British, French, and Italian decadent novels as well as Russian Symbolist drama, focusing on how fin-de-siècle texts reinterpret and/or subvert generic tropes, destabilize identities, and deconstruct language.

Talks

Presentation on Vladimir Bortko's film adaptation of Mikhail
Bulgakov's _Heart of a Dog_ delivered before the Russian Students Clubat John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Spring 2004.

Courses Taught

Regularly taught: Great Books I, a survey of major works of Western literature (selections from Homer, the three Athenian tragedians, Herodotus, Plato, Virgil and the Roman lyric poets, and Dante), with an emphasis on myth and thematic transformation. Currently teaching: Russia and the West, a survey of nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts in which the West is represented, problematized, satirized, and imagined by Russian writers (Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Platonov, Il'f, Trifonov, and Limonov), focusing on cultural and national myths, stereotypes, and ideologies.
LanguagesFluency in spoken and written Russian and Ukrainian.
Reading knowledge of French and Classical Latin.

Languages

Fluency in spoken and written Russian and Ukrainian.
Reading knowledge of French and Classical Latin.

Curriculum Vitae