M.A. Slavic Languages & Literatures, UC Berkeley, 2016 B.A. Russian & French, Amherst College, 2013
Entered Berkeley program in 2014
Paper submitted with application to Berkeley: “Infectious Words: Art and / as Adultery in Tolstoy and Zola”
Languages known and studied: French, Russian, German, OCS
Study Abroad: 2011: Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po); Paris, France 2013-14: Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS); Paris, France Summer 2016: RusLanguage Program; Moscow, Russia
B.A. in Language, Civilisation, and the Science of Language: Russian and German Languages and Literatures, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2021
M.A. in European, American, and Postcolonial Languages and Literatures: Slavic and Balkan Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2024
Entered Berkeley program: Fall 2024
Paper submitted with application to Berkeley: Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev’s Literary Framework and its Orientalist Implications: Study on Travelogue in the Russian Far East from a Postcolonial Perspective
B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Political Science, Hunter College, 2023 Entered Berkeley program in 2024
Papers submitted with application: Borders in Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time and “The Demon” and “Every man must have somewhere to go”: Movement in Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
Bio/CVMA Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley, 2019MA Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 2017BA Russian & Philosophy (double major), University of Tennessee, 2009Publications:
“Yuri Rytkheu, Narrative Time, and the Afterlife of Second World Literature.” Comparative Literature. (forthcoming June 2026).
“Memories of Development: Global Media after State Socialism.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 64, no. 3 (Spring 2025): 46-68.“The Pot...
B.A. in Russian Language & Literature, UC Berkeley, 2025 Entered Berkeley program in 2025
Paper submitted with application to Berkeley: "The Hegelian basis of V. G. Belinskij's aesthetics"
Languages known and studied: Chinese, Russian, Spanish, German
Research interests: 19th-c. Russian intellectual history; romanticism and idealism; Belinskij; Nabokov; history of friendship; relationship between philosophy and literature; influence of Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel in Russia
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”
Languages known and studied: Russian, French, Uzbek
