Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature

• Isaac Babel
• Biopoetics
• Body Theory
• Guy de Maupassant
• Music in Literature

• Russian language (RUSS 101-102, 103-104, 201-202)
  
• Images of Childhood in Russian Literature
  
• The World of Isaac Babel
  
• 19th century Russian Literature in Translation (RUSS 203/COMP 203)
  
• Music and 19th Century Literature (RUSS 307)
  
• European Modernism (COMP 232)
  
• Literature and the Body (COMP 253)
• Teaching Assistant Workshop

• B.A. Amherst College
• M.A and Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Taught Russian, Spanish and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Conference, March 31, 2007

• "A Question of Place: Situating Old Shloime in Isaac Babel's Oeuvre,"  The Russian Review, January 2007.
• "The Poetics of Transit: Miss Harriet and Guy de Maupassant," SEEJ, Winter 2007.
• Editor of the English Translation of Luz Arce's "El Infierno," University of Wisconsin Press.
• "Seeing 'amiss' or Misreading 'a Miss': Imperfect Vision in Maupassant's Les Tombales," Dalhousie French Studies, volume 51, 2000.
• "Narrative, Music, and Performance: Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata and the Example of Beethoven," Tolstoy Studies Journal, volume 12, 2000.

• University WARF Fellowship, 1998
• College of Letters and Science Teaching Prize, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995.
• J. Thomas Shaw Prize for the best paper presented at AATSEEL-Wisconsin, 1995.
  
• Dobro Slovo Honors Society, inducted 1993.
  
• Mikhail Schweitzer Book Award for excellence in Russian, Amherst College, 1988.
• Lincoln Lowell Russell Prize for excellence in music, Amherst College, 1988.