“Yuri Rytkheu, Narrative Time, and the Afterlife of Second World Literature.” Comparative Literature. (forthcoming June 2026).
Paper submitted with application to Berkeley: “On the Physiognomy of History: Blok, Benjamin, Film”
Languages known and studied: Russian, German, Spanish, BCS
Fields of Interest: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Russian and East European literature and culture; peripheral modernisms; transnational and world literature and cinema; Critical Theory; Film & Media Studies; sociology of culture.
Selected Conference participation:
“Periodizing Post-Socialist Left Aesthetics” at the Institute on Culture and Society, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, June 17-21, 2025
“Yuri Rytkheu, Peripheral Realism, and the Second World” on “History, Modernity, and Second World Forms.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, online conference, May 29-June 1, 2025
“Life Goes On: Gleb Panfilov’s Прошу слова (I Wish to Speak) as Political Allegory” at “Political Economy and Cultural Forms” workshop, New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, Apr. 25, 2025
“Reflections on Teaching The Ministry of Pain as World Literature” on “The Legacy of Dubravka Ugrešić.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL) Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Feb. 15-18, 2024
“’Touch the Viewer’s Heart Without Entertaining Him’: Chto Delat? Turns to Brecht and Godard” in “A Cinematic Internationalism? Reframing World Cinema.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 16-19, 2023
“Alisa Ganieva’s Salaam tebe, Dalgat! and Uneven Development.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, Jan 5-8, 2022
“Art Work and the Hidden Abode: The May Congress of Art Workers and Capitalist Transition.” Association for Slavic Eastern European & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 54th annual meeting, Chicago, IL, Nov. 10-13, 2022
“Politics and Praxis in Yugoslav New Film: Rani Radovi [Early Works] by Želimir Žilnik.” Berkeley Slavic Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, Oct. 17, 2022