B.A. University of Chicago (Slavic Languages and Literatures) 2011
M.A. University of Chicago (Slavic Languages and Literatures) 2011
Entered Berkeley program in 2012
Paper submitted with application to Berkeley:
“Zhestokij Vakuum”: Textualization of Space and Spatialization of Text in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskij’s Avtobiografiia Trupa
Research Interests: The Russian avant-garde; Late-Soviet and Contemporary Russian literature and visual culture; 20th Century Czech literature and culture; critical theory; narrative theory; Soviet architecture; visionary/rhetorical architecture
Languages known and studied: Russian, Czech, Spanish, German, Old Church Slavonic
Conference participation:
January 2012, AATSEEL Conference (Seattle, WA), Pirozhki Papers: Narrative as Abjection in Nikolai Gogol’s “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his Aunt”
Study Abroad:
Summer 2009: ACTR Russian Langauge and Culture, Vladimir, Russia
Fall 2009: Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia