Teaching:
20th- and 21st-century Russian literature; early Soviet culture; late-Soviet and post-Soviet literature and film; Russia and East Asia; literary theory. Recent graduate seminars include “Facts and Fictions: Factographic Strategies in Russian Prose.”
Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University (Russian and Comparative Literature).
M.Phil, Columbia University (Russian and Comparative Literature—Chinese).
M.A., School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London (Russian Studies).
B.A., University of Oxford (Classics and Modern Languages—Ancient Greek and Russian).
Publications:
Internationalist Aesthetics: Imagining China in Early Soviet Culture (Columbia University Press, 2021)
Articles
“Introduction: Cinemas of Soviet Peripheries,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 18, no. 2 (2024, Special Issue on Cinemas of Soviet Peripheries): 154–57.
“The Adventures of Przhevalskii in Socialist China: Performing Friendship at the Inter-imperial Periphery.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 18, no. 2 (2024, Special Issue on Cinemas of Soviet Peripheries): 177–198.
“Revolutionary Violence with Chinese Characteristics: Chinese Migrants in Early Soviet Literature.” In Red Migrations: Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917, edited by Philip Gleissner and Bradley Gorski. University of Toronto Press, 2024.
“Soviet Adventures in China: Internationalism and 1920s Adventure Fiction.” In
Adventure Literature in the Early Soviet Union, edited by Riccardo Nicolosi and Brigitte Obermayr. Academic Studies Press, 2024, 197–214.
“Translating China into International Literature: Stalin-Era World Literature Beyond the West.” In World Literature in the Soviet Union, edited by Rossen Djagalov, Anne Lounsbery, and Galin Tihanov. Academic Studies Press, 2023, 165–88.
“Stalled at Friendship Station: Under Ancient Desert Skies, the Socialist Silk Road, and Cinematic Collaboration on the Eve of the Sino-Soviet Split.” The Russian Review 80, no. 4 (October 2021, Special Issue on Soviet Internationalism): 603–23.
“Afterword: Mapping Socialism Across Eurasia,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 28 (September 2018, special issue on “Writing Revolution Across North-East Asia”): 116-123.
“Sino-Soviet Confessions: Authority, Agency and Autobiography in Sergei Tret’iakov’s Den Shi-khua,” The Russian Review 77, No. 1 (January 2018).
“Resignifying The Red Poppy: Internationalism and Symbolic Power in the Sino-Soviet Encounter,” Slavic and East European Journal 61, No. 3 (Autumn 2017): 445-466.
“Productive Rhythms: The Sounds of China through Soviet Ears,” Ulbandus: The Slavic Review of Columbia University, vol. XVI: Hearing Texts: The Auditory in Slavic Literatures, 2014.
Early Soviet culture; Soviet internationalism; cultural connections and exchanges between Russia and China; Russian and Soviet Orientalism; theories and experiences of post-socialism; politics and aesthetics; subjectivity and self-narration.
