B. Phil., St. Petersburg State University, Russian Language and Literature, 2011 M. Phil., St. Petersburg State University, History of Russian Literature, 2013 M.A., University of Oregon, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, 2021
Entered Berkeley Program in 2021
Paper submitted alongside Berkeley application: “Figures of Speech: Inscriptions as Intertitles in Man with a Movie Camera”
Languages known and studied: Russian, English, French, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Old Church Slavic
B.A. Reed College, Russian, 2021 Entered Berkeley program in 2021
Paper submitted with application to Berkeley: Trotsky Writes the Russian Revolution: The Symbol of the Explosion in Trotsky’s My Life and The History of the Russian Revolution and its Meta-Symbolic Significance.
Paper submitted with application to Berkeley: “Taking Pale Fire Less Seriously”Research interests: Nabokov, Jewry in the Russian Empire/Soviet Union, 19th-20th century novel, exile
Languages known and/or studied: Russian, French, German, Latin, Hebrew
B.A. in Russian and Philosophy, Fudan University, 2025 Entered Berkeley program in 2025 Paper submitted with application: “Well, go, love Ivan!”: Ivan Karamazov unveiled and the “Pro and Contra” debate revisited Languages known and studied: Mandarin, English, Russian, German, Ukrainian, Ancient Greek Research Interests: Dostoevsky; Utopia; Philosophy and Literature; Classical Reception.
B.A. in Literature, Bard College, 2018 Entered Berkeley program in 2022
Paper submitted with application: The Perfect Illusion: Complicated Beauty and the Challenge of Interpreting Nabokov’s “Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle”.
Languages known and studied: English, Russian, French.
