Professor of Russian

• Russian literature
• Russian theater
• Performance Studies

• Elementary Russian (RUSS 101-102)
• Intermediate Russian (RUSS 103-104)
• Advanced Russian (RUSS 201-202)
• Dostoevsky and His Age (RUSS 305/COMP 305)
• Tolstoy and His Age (RUSS 306/COMP 306)

• B.A., Grinnell College
• M.A. and Ph.D., Stanford University

• “Of Dandies, Flirts, and Cockatoos:  Shakhovskoi’s Antitheatrical  Lesson to Coquettes.”  The Russian Review 65, no. 3 (July 2006):  393-416.
• “Kirov and Death in The Great Citizen:  The Fatal Consequences of Linguistic Mediation.”  Slavic Review 64, no. 4 (Winter 2005):  799-822.
• “Alcohol is Our Enemy!  Soviet Temperance Melodramas of the 1920s.”  In Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger, eds., Imitations of Life:  Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia (Durham:  Duke University Press, 2002), 152-177.
• The Enemy on Trial:  Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen.  DeKalb, IL:  Northern Illinois University Press, 2000.

• Gaudino Scholar, 2006-2008.
• Williams College Faculty World Fellowship for travel to and research in Russia, 2004.