Scholarship and Biography

I am interested in how selfhood, consciousness and language are related, especially in lyric poetry written in Slavic and European languages, and over the entire history of poetry. This central focus is informed by my research interests in areas such as: Theory of Lyric, Historical Poetics, Phenomenology, Subjectivity, Literature & Philosophy, Cultural Semiotics, History & Theory of Russian Poetry, Romanticism, Translation.

Honors

UC Berkeley Regents Intern-Fellowship
University of California, Berkeley (United States, Berkeley) - UCB, 1987-1991
IREX Language Training Grant (Charles University, Prague)
International Research & Exchanges Board (United States, Washington D.C.) - IREX, 1989
ACTR Summer Exchange of Teachers of Russian Grant
ACTR, 1990
University of California-Herzen University Junior Faculty Exchange Grant (esearch at Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg)
University of California, Berkeley (United States, Berkeley) - UCB, 1992
Mellon Fellowship, administered by The Center for Slavic and East European Studies, University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley (United States, Berkeley) - UCB, 1993-1994
ACLS Grant for Travel to International Meetings Abroad
American Council of Learned Societies (United States, New York) - ACLS, 1996
Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship
University of Chicago (United States, Chicago) - UC, 1997
Residential Research Fellow, Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 1998-1999
Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2003-2006
Faculty Consilience Seminar
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2004-2005
Course Development Grant, Consilience Program
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2005
Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies,
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2006-2009
Davis Foundation Writing Grant Faculty Fellow
Davis Foundations (United States, Yarmouth), 2009-2010
Norman Faculty Scholarship Awared
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2011
Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies,
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2012-2021
Senior Faculty Research Leave
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2016
Norman Faculty Scholarship Award
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 04/2023

Organizational Affiliations

Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Master of Arts Program in Comparative Humanities, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in Comparative Literature and Culture, Brandeis University

Chair/Director, Department/Program, Interdepartmental Program in Comparative Literature and Culture, Brandeis University

Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University (United States, Cambridge)

Education

University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
M.A.
Princeton University
B.A.