B.A. Russian and Comparative Literature, Oberlin College 2007
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Florida 2013
M.S. Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2015
Entered Berkeley Program 2017
Paper submitted with Berkeley application: “‘Dimitrii Would Kill Dimitrii’”: An Ambivalent Antihero in Sumarokov’s Tragedy”
Research interests: Minority literatures of the Soviet Union, unofficial writing of the 1950-60s, literary translation in Russia, transnational cultural relationships in the eighteenth century
Languages known and studied: Russian, French, Uzbek