Areas of Interests
Scandalous and sensationalist literature. Literary imbecility. Augustan Rome & vicinities.
America from the Puritans to 19th century. Soviet and post-Soviet literature.
Courses Taught
Adjunct lecturer in Comparative Literature. Recent courses: “Ovid’s Scandalous Mythology,” “In
Bad Company: Poe, Dostoevsky, and Popular Sensationalism,” “Rome & Greece: Literary Wars,”
“Autobiography & Its Imitation,” “Love, Eroticism, and Pornography in Antiquity,” and “Troubled Birth Of Modernism.”
Adjunct Lecturer in School of Arts and Sciences. Teaching “Orientation Seminar” which introduces college freshmen to the academic environment by exploring various aspects of
higher education.
Publications
“Wilde Rereads the Myth of Orpheus and Dies,” In-between: Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism. Summer 2006.