Degree

BA Harvard University 2002; MA, MPhil, PhD Columbia University 2005, 2007, 2011

Teaching Experience

Literature and Culture
Freshman Seminar. Total Art: Russian and Soviet Film, Colgate University, 2012
The New Russians: Post-Soviet Literature, Art and Film, Colgate University, 2012
The Émigrés: Lives of Remarkable Russians, Colgate University, 2011

Language
Russian 102, Colgate University, 2012, 2013
Russian 101, Colgate University, 2011, 2012
Serbian Language and Culture Special Course, West Point Military Academy, 2007
First Year Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian II, Columbia University, 2007
First Year Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian I, Columbia University, 2006
First Year Russian II, Columbia University, 2006
First Year Russian I, Columbia University, 2005

Core Curriculum
Core 152: Challenges of Modernity, Colgate University, 2013
Literature Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy, Columbia University, 2009-2010

Independent Studies
Reading the Russian Revolution, Colgate University, 2012
Occupy Russia: The Culture and Future of Protest in Putin’s Russia, Colgate University, 2013
Russian Comic Books and Graphic Art, Colgate University, 2013

Specialities

Interests

Dissertation

"From Onegin to Ada: Nabokov’s Canon and the Texture of Time” (defended with distinction at Columbia University, 2011)
Adviser: Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University

Distinctions

2012                           Colgate University Major Grant (research in Moscow and St. Petersburg)
2010-2011                  Harriman Institute Junior Fellowship, Columbia University
2009-2010                  Core Preceptor Teaching Award in Literature-Humanities, Columbia University
2009-2010                  Harriman Institute Junior Fellowship, Columbia University
2006-2007                  Ruth Hettleman Young Scholar, Columbia University
2005-2006                  Presidential Teaching Award for the Humanities, Columbia University
2004-2005                  Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship (Russian)
2003-2008                  Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University
2002-2003                  Fulbright Scholarship
1998-2002                  John Harvard Scholarship (Rank I), Harvard University
2000-2002                  Signet Society of Arts and Letters, Harvard University
1998-1999                  National Merit Scholarship, Harvard University
1997                           Telluride Scholarship (TASP), Cornell University

Publications

Book-length
Editor. Ulbandus X Special Issue: My Nabokov, 2006-7.
From Onegin to Ada: Nabokov’s Canon (forthcoming).

Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The Other Russian Literature: Viktor Erofeev’s Russian Flowers of Evil.” In Ulbandus, 2004.
“On David Albahari’s Drugi jezik (Second Language).” In World Literature Today, January 2005.
“Oblomov and the Grand Tour: Edifying Travel and How We Read Goncharov’s Novel,” trans. “Bol’shoe puteshestvie Oblomova: Roman Goncharova v svete prosvetitel’noi poezdki.” In Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, No. 104, 2010.
“Love, Death, Nabokov: Looking for The Original of Laura.” Special edition of the Nabokov Online Journal (December 2011).
“Nabokov and the Critics’ TOOL.” In Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov’s Last Novel The Original of Laura, ed. Yuri Leving and Brian Boyd. McGill-Queens University Press, 2012.

Editor-Selected Articles and Reviews
“The Decadent Anna Akhmatova? A Virtual Tea.” Multi-author piece. In Ulbandus, 2004.
“Review: Nikita Nankov’s Posmodernizam i kulturni izazovi.” In SEEJ 51.2 (Summer 2007).
“Thaw: Russian Art from Glasnost to the Present. From the Guelman Collection.” In PopMatters (2 April 2008).
“Film Review: Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Tulpan (2008).” In Slovo, Vol. 21.1 (Spring 2009).
“Dušan Kovacević” literary biography for Encyclopedia of Serbian Authors, 2009.
“Zenit Rising: Return to an Avant-Garde.” In After Yugoslavia: Post-Yugoslav Cultural Spaces and Europe. Stanford University Press, 2012.
Introduction to After Yugoslavia: Post-Yugoslav Cultural Spaces and Europe. Stanford University Press, 2012.

Additional Popular Reviews
“Review: The Nightmare and the Dream.” In PopMatters (22 September 2008).
“Review: Brain Upon the Brain!” In PopMatters (10 October 2008).
“Review: Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom.” In PopMatters (24 October 2008).
“Review: Last Year at Marienbad.” In PopMatters (25 April 2008).
“Samuel Beckett: Beyond the Endgame.” In PopMatters (27 June 2008).
“Review: Le Plaisir.” In PopMatters (23 January 2009).
“New Books on Performance Art and the Art Market: What We Write About When We Write About Art.” In PopMatters (8 April 2009).

Projects in Process
Co-editor (with Brian Boyd). Nabokov Upside Down, conference volume. Planned publication with Cambridge University Press, 2013.
“Nabokov and the Transcultural Imperative.” In Nabokov Upside Down.
“The Two Vladimirs: The Anti-Novels of Nabokov and Sorokin.”
“Timur Kibirov: Poetry after Conceptualism.”