B.A in Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, 2018
Entered Berkeley program in 2019
Paper submitted alongside Berkeley application: “ Trainspotting: teleology, linearity and continuity in the [post] space of Zheleznaia doroga”
Languages known and studied: Russian, German, French, English, Korean, Kazakh
Research interests: Late Soviet prose, Northeast Asian studies, narratology, Russian literature as “world literature,” Kazakhstani literary institutions and Soviet/DPRK symbolic relations