B.A., International Relations, American University
M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago
Entered Berkeley program in 2010
M.A., 2013
Paper submitted with application to Berkeley:
“On Death and Dreaming: Mortality in Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s Michurin and the
Crisis of Soviet Ideology”
Research Interests: Russian Romanticism, the Caucasus in the Russian literary imagination, Russo-Georgian literary relations, theories of urbanism, literary and cultural history of Tbilisi.
Languages known and studied: Georgian, Russian, Polish
Conference participation:
“Moderate Sentiment: The Mediation of Excess as the Function of Karamzin’s Narrative Voice in ‘Bednaya Liza,'” California Slavic Colloquium, 2011
“Mikhail Kuzmin’’s ‘Trout Breaking Though the Ice:’ The Poem’s Reputation and the Aesthetic Experience of Reading” Roundtable Presentation, ASEEES, 2011
Translations:
Georgian Futurist Manifestoes – Titsian Tabidze, ‘With Blue Drinking Horns’ and Paolo Iashvili ‘First Utterance’ in Modernism//Modernity, Fall 2013.