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
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. 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
