
Office Hours for Spring 2016:
Tuesdays, 1:15 – 2:15 pm and 4 – 5 pm
Wednesdays, 1:30 – 3 pm
and by appointment
Education
M.A. Stanford University, Russian (1990)
Ph.D. Stanford University, Slavic Languages (1995)
Areas of Expertise
Russian language and literature
Russian theater and cinema
Performance Studies
Gender Studies
Courses
RUSS 101(F)
Elementary RussianRUSS 210 T / COMP 207
Tolstoy: The Major NovelsCOMP 222
Detective FictionCOMP 257 / GBST 213 / RUSS 213 / WGSS 214(F)
From Putin to Pussy Riot: Discourses of Post-Soviet GenderRUSS 305 / COMP 305
Dostoevsky and His AgeRUSS 306 / COMP 306(S)
Tolstoy and His AgeENGL 371 T / COMP 331 / RUSS 331
The Brothers KaramazovScholarship/Creative Work
“Persian Cargo on a Russian Ark: The Role of Iran in Sokurov’s Russian Ark.” Article co-written with Leyla Rouhi and accepted for publication by International Journal of Persian Literature.
“Jolly or Just a Drag? Feliks Mikhailov’s Vesel’chaki Meet the Real Russian Drag Queens.” Contribution to Russian Performances, forthcoming volume co-edited with Julie Buckler and Boris Wolfson.
“Kool-Aid,” “Popsicle,” and “Sitophilia.” Entries in The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, ed. Darra Goldstein (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 384-385, 551, and 614-615.
“Why Stalinist Cinema Had No Detective Films, or How Three Becomes Two in Engineer Kochin’s Mistake.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 31, no. 1 (Jan. 2014): 56-73.
“Post-Soviet Pop Goes Gay: Russia’s Trajectory to Eurovision Victory.” The Russian Review 73:1 (Jan. 2014): 1-23.
“A Personality Cult for the Post-modern Age: Reading Vladimir Putin’s Public Persona.” Chapter co-authored with Emily Johnson in Putin as Celebrity and Cultural Icon, edited by Helena Goscilo (London: Routledge, 2012), 37-64.
“The Rise of the Actress in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia.” Chapter in Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Lives and Culture, edited by Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2012), 137-159.
“Vladimir Putin and Russia’s New Cult of Personality.” Article co-authored with Emily Johnson. Slavonic and East European Review 88, no. 4 (Oct. 2010): 681-707. Reprinted in Post-Soviet Politics, ed. Stephen White and Cerwyn Moore, Sage Publications.
“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).
The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000.
“Northern Poetry for a Northern People: Text and Context in Ozerov’s Fingal.” Slavonic and East European Review 78 (April 2000): 1-27.
“From Nevskii Prospekt to Zoia’s Apartment: Trials of the Russian Procuress.” Article co-authored with Leyla Rouhi. The Russian Review 58 (July 1999): 413-31.
“Marble Columns and Jupiter Lights: Theatrical and Cinematic Modeling of the Soviet Show Trial in the 1920s.” Slavic and East European Journal 42, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 640-60. Reprinted in Marit Paasche and Judy Radul, eds., A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011).
“Flash Floods, Bedbugs, and Saunas: Social Hygiene in Maiakovskii’s Theatrical Satires of the Twenties.” The Slavonic and East European Review 76, no. 4 (October 1998): 643-57. Reprinted in Janet G. Tucker, ed., Against the Grain: Parody, Satire, and Intertextuality in Russian Literature (Bloomington: Slavica, 2002).
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
Gaudino Scholar, 2006-2008.
Summer Stipdend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2007.
Williams College Faculty World Fellowship for travel to and research in Russia, 2004.
Professional Affiliations
American Association for Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages
American Council of Teachers of Russian
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Modern Language Association
Current Committees
Global Studies



