Overview
A scholar of Russian literature and European intellectual history, I work at the intersection of literary and political form from a comparative perspective.
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
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2025 - Present
Slavic & Eurasian Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Scholarly Works
Gleb Uspensky’s Peasant Cycles and the Modernist Poetics of Labor
Journal article Slavic Literatures · December 1, 2025 This paper argues that Gleb Uspensky’s Peasant Cycles of the 1880s (Vlast’ Zemli and Krest’ianin i krest’ianskii trud) develop a new literary style which is modeled on a concept of labor and characterized by a foregrounded narrative subject who is absorbed ... Full text CiteThe Cry of the Heart: Russian and Ottoman Literary Enlightenments
Journal article Comparative Critical Studies · February 1, 2025 This article examines the works of Alexander Radishchev and Namık Kemal to explore how Russian and Ottoman Enlightenments conceptualized emotion as integral to political subjectivity. Moving beyond conventional interpretations of these traditions as reacti ... Full text Open Access CiteIn the Peasant's Place: Social Problems and Narrative Practice in Turgenev's Notes from a Hunter
Journal article Russian Review · July 1, 2021 This article is concerned with the aesthetic and social tensions of the countryside in Ivan Turgenev's Notes from a Hunter (Zapiski okhotnika, 1847–52) as a site where two temporalities–history and immediacy–collide, producing shifts in narrative perspecti ... Full text Open Access CiteEducation
University of California, Berkeley ·
2019
Ph.D.