Visiting Lecturer / Russian Department, Wellesley College
Fall term 2018–2019
Russian 286: "Vladimir Nabokov's Novels in English" (writing intensive course; course head)
Russian 386: "Vladimir Nabokov's Short Stories in the Original" (Russian) (course head)
College Fellow / Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Spring term 2016–2017
Slavic 187: "Global Voices: Russian Literature Today" (course head)
Fall term 2016–2017
Slavic 158: "Narrative Strategies in Nikolai Gogol's Short Fiction"/ Slavic 98A: "Junior Tutorial for Slavic Concentrators in Russian" (course head)
Slavic 145: "Russian Literature in Translation: The 19th Century Tradition" (course head)
Spring term 2015–2016
Slavic 97: "Introduction to Slavic Literatures and Cultures" / Sophomore Tutorial for Slavic Concentrators (course head)
Fall term 2015–2016
Slavic 158: "Narrative Strategies in Nikolai Gogol's Short Fiction"/ Slavic 98A: "Junior Tutorial for Slavic Concentrators in Russian" (course head)
Slavic 187: "Global Voices: Russian Literature Today" (course head)
Instructor, Harvard Summer School
June-August 2015: Language Course "Introduction to German for Reading Knowledge," an intensive language course for credit, designed primarily for graduate students seeking to fulfill their language requirements at home institution.
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
Spring term 2013–2014: Joint course in General Education at Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Ethical Reasoning 20 / LAW 2392 "Self, Serenity, and Vulnerability: West and East" (discussion section component, with Prof. Roberto Unger (Harvard Law School), Prof. Michael Puett (Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Fall term 2013–2014: Language Course “German A: Beginning German I” (all components) (Course Head: Dr. Lisa Parkes, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Spring term 2012–2013: Advanced Russian Language Course (third year Russian, grammar component) “Slavic 103: Reading, Composition, and Conversation” (Course Head: Dr. Natalia Reed, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Spring term 2011–2012: Course in General Education at Harvard College: “Slavic 148: Strange Russian Writers” (discussion section component, with Prof. Stephanie Sandler, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Fall term 2011–2012: Course in General Education at Harvard College: “Ethical Reasoning 28: Moral Inquiry in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky” (discussion section component, with Prof. Justin Weir, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Fall and Spring terms 2010–2011: Intermediate Russian Language Course (second year Russian, grammar component) “Slavic B” (Course Head: Dr. Natalia Reed, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Invited Lectures
July 2016, Ukrainian Summer Institute, Harvard University: Poetry workshop titled "On Poetry and Poets: Oleh Lysheha and His Creative Cricle" (see a participant's response here)
July 2014, Ukrainian Summer Institute, Harvard University: Lecture and workshop titled "The Secret of Success: Contemporary Ukrainian Literature in European Perspective"
February 2012, Harvard University: Guest lecture on film adaptations of Leo Tolstoy’sWar and Peace, with introduction to tools of text vs. film analysis; frame, composition, and camera technique analysis.
December 2011, Harvard University: Guest lecture on psychology and psychologism in F. Dostoevsky’s works, Freudian interpretations, and stylistic aspects of Dostoevsky’s writing.
March 2010, Shevchenko Scientific Society in America (New York, NY): Invited lecture on Russian travel literature of the late 18th and early 19th century and its connection to the work of Taras Shevchenko.