Education:
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PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Harvard University, degree expected 2022
Dissertation: "Dance - Image - Text: Aleksei Remizov's Poetics of Rewriting" -
MA, Comparative Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013
MA Thesis: "Kundera's Artful Exile: The Paradox of Betrayal" -
BA, Russian Language and Culture, International Studies (International Politics, Russian and East European Studies), Highest distinction and highest honors
UNC Chapel Hill, 2011
Senior Thesis: "The Art of the Unspoken: Typology of Pauses in Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya'"
Interests:
- language and time, time of/in language and language of time
- "mapping" literature, digital humanities
- emigre literature, Russian Berlin of the 1920s
- memory and literature, memory of/in literature, intertextuality
- pauses, ellipses, gaps, silences, syncopes
- poetry of prose, and prose in poetry