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 Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of the Practice in Slavic & Eurasian Studies
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2024 - Present
Slavic & Eurasian Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
The Cry of the Heart: Russian and Ottoman Literary Enlightenments
Journal Article Comparative Critical Studies · February 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 ... 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 CiteTHE NEW MAN AND THE PEOPLE: THE LYRICAL VOICE AND POETIC DEMOCRACY IN N. A. NEKRASOV
Journal Article Russkaia Literatura · January 1, 2021 This article analyzes the expression of individual limitation in Nekrasov’s poetry as a model of democratic pathos which departs from the 1860s standard of self-sacrifi ce. Who Lives Well in Russia is treated as a culminating expression of Nekrasov’s uniqu ... Full text Open Access CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
University of California, Berkeley ·
2019
Ph.D.