19th and 20th century Russian literature, Soviet and Russian film, Russian and European culture, medical history, environmental studies, space and place in literature, literary and critical theory
My research bears primarily on modern Russian literature, with a focus on the role of the environment and medical thought in nineteenth century prose. I am currently working on my first book, Chekhov’s Environmental Psychology: Medicine and Literature, which situates Anton Chekhov’s creative work in the context of Russian and European medical history and environmental thought. I have written articles on Lev Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Dmitry Grigorovich that consider the psychology of spatial experience these authors explored in their writing. I also research Russian film and media.
“Chekhov’s Environmental Psychology: Medicine and the Early Prose” (forthcoming with Slavic Review), Winter 2020
“Letters, Dreams, and Their Environments” in Chekhov’s Letters, edited by Carol Apollonio and Radislav Lapushin, 247-52. New York: Lexington Books, 2018.
“Space and Storytelling in Late Imperial Russia: Chekhov, Tolstoy, and the Question of Property,” The Russian Review 76.1 (2017): 72-94.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Mellon-Council for European Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Rutgers University (declined)
Critical Language Scholarship, U.S. Department of State, American Councils, Resident Director, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Dodge-Lawrence Fellowship, Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
Mellon Research Fellowship, Rutgers University, Dostoevsky Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Nineteenth Century Russian Literature and Social Change RUSS 326
Soviet and Russian Film: Innovation and Ideology RUSS 470
Ph.D., Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
B.A. in the History of Science and Philosophy, St. John’s College, Annapolis
“Chekhov’s Environmental Psychology: Space and the Mind in ‘The Steppe’” New York University (2019, invited)
“Intercultural Competence and the Ethnographic Interview” Atlanta Global Studies Symposium (2019)
“Chekhov, Psychiatry, and Activist Prose” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Boston (2018)
“The Environments of Chekhov’s Drama” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Chicago (2017)
“The Dreaming Mind in Realist Fiction: Chekhov and Grigorovich” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Convention, San Francisco (2017)