Education
- PhD, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA: Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2004
- M.A., University of Washington, Seattle, WA: Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1996
- B.A., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (double major): Feminist Studies; English with an Interdisciplinary Emphasis on French and Russian Literatures, 1992
Research
- Contemporary Russian women’s writing
- Russian-American fiction
- Chekhov
- Comparative literature
- Feminist and postcolonial theory
- Writing the body in contemporary Russian women’s fiction and film
- Virginia Woolf’s translation of Dostoevsky
Publications
Articles
- “Telling Their Hybrid Stories: Three Recent Works of Russian-American Fiction” SEEJ 59.1 (2015): 116-24
- “Hybrid Selves, Hybrid Texts: Embracing the Hyphen in Russian-American Fiction,” Slavic and East European Journal 55.1 (2011): 19-37 (Organizer for Special Forum Issue on Russian-American Fiction)
- “A Dialogue in Books: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours” in Critical Insights: Mrs. Dalloway, ed. Dorothy Dodge Robbins, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2011, 59-73
- “Translating Dostoevskii, Writing a Novel of One’s Own: The Place of Stavrogin’s Confession in the Creation of Mrs. Dalloway,” Modern Language Review 104.4 (2009): 1081-1097
- “‘We all love with the same part of the body, don’t we?’: Iuliia Voznesenskaia’s Zhenskii Dekameron, New Women’s Prose, and French Feminist Theory,” Intertexts 13.2 (2009): 95-114
- “Shamara: writing and screening the female body,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 2.2 (2008): 167-181
Book Reviews
- The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, Los Angeles Review of Books (May 20, 2012)
- http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=646
- Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart, Jewish Quarterly 216 (2010): 80-1
- Fire on Water: Porgess and The Abyss by Arnošt Lustig, SEEJ 52.1 (2008): 147-8
- A Land the Size of Binoculars by Igor Klekh, SEEJ 50.2 (2006): 346-8
- The House of Returned Echoes by Arnošt Lustig, SEEJ 46.2 (2002): 406-7
- Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Lorraine Code, ed., The Library Quarterly 72 (2002)
Courses
Content Courses
- Women in Russian Literature: Writing the Body in Contemporary Fiction (cross-listed with Gender Studies)
- Literature and Revolution
- Golden Age and The Great Realists
- Chekhov
- The Great Russian Novel
- Russian Civilization in the 20th Century
- Russian Literature and World Cinema
- Senior Thesis Seminar
Language Courses
- Beginning/Intensive Beginning Russian
- Intermediate/Intensive Intermediate Russian
- Literacy in Russian (heritage speakers)
- Russian for Social and Cultural Studies