Education:
Ph.D. Russian Academy of Performing Arts (theory and history of dramatic art).
Teaching:
Russian language; Russian language and culture for heritage speakers; Russian-English/English Russian translation; performing arts, theatre, and drama in Russia; Chekhov. Advanced readings in Russian literature (in the original).
Selected publications:
” ‘The Tragedy of a Russian Woman’: Anna Karenina in the Moscow Art Theatre, 1937″ in: Russian Literature, vol. 65, issue 4, 2009.
“The Sound of Distant Thunder: Chekhov and Chekhovian Subtexts in Tom Stoppard’s Russian Trilogy” – In: Chekhov the Immigrant. Translating the Cultural Icon. Eds. Michael Finke, Julie de Sherbinin. Slavica, 2008.
“Chekhov v Avstralii” – In: Literaturnoe nasledstvo, tom 100: Chekhov i mirovaia literatura, v trekh knigax. Kn. 2, Moskva, Nauka, 2005.
The White Quadrangle. Kazimir Malevich’s Writings on Film. Ed. Oksana Bulgakowa. In English and Russian. Berlin and San Francisco: Potemkin Press, 2002. – Annotations (with Oksana Bulgakowa). Translations. Essay “Weaving Texts: Malevich’s Uses of Language.”
“Kornei Chukovskii and ‘Men and Books of the 1860s’ in the 1920s.” — forthcoming in Forgotten Episodes of Soviet Literary History, ed. N. Luker, Astra Press, Nottingham, England.
“Science, Philosophy, Music: Chekhov’s Three Germans.” In: Cold Fusion, ed. G. Barabtarlo, Berghahn Books, New York & Oxford, 2000.
“Meyerhold at Rehearsal. New Materials on Meyerhold’s Work with Actors.” Theatre Topics, vol. 6, No.1, 1996.
“Chukovskii and the Nabokovs.” The Nabokovian, No. 36, Spring 1996.
“Reading the Soviet Bukvar'”. Almanac Mesto Pechati, No.1, 1993, Moscow.
Language and culture in language pedagogy; heritage learners. Theory and practice of translation. Performing arts: drama, theater, and visual culture; Chekhovin the English-speaking world.
Current projects: Chekhov’s costumes of self: rereading Chekhovfor his 150th anniversary. Performing arts in language learning.