Russian literature
Russian language (all levels)
Russian film
Cultural studies and literary theory

Research Interests

Russian peasant poets
lyric persona and self-fashioning
Siberian literature and cultural history

Selected Publications
Books

Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, co-editor (with Judith E. Kalb), Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 238 (Detroit: Gale Research, 2001). 

Russian Writers of the Silver Age, 1890-1925, co-editor (with Judith E. Kalb and Igor G. Vishnevetsky), Dictionary of Literary Biography (Detroit: Gale Research, 2002), under contract. 

Article and Chapters

"Research-Based Learning at Baikal and Beyond: A New Paradigm for Study Abroad," NewsNet: The Newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, March, 2001. 

"Nikolai Kliuev," Censorship: An International Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. (forthcoming)

"Overcoming the Destruction of Peasant Russia: The Epic Impulse in Nikolai Kliuev's Late Poetry," Enemies of the people: The Destruction of Soviet Film, Theater, and Literary Arts in the 1930s, Ed. Katherine Eaton (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2001), (forthcoming). 

"Fashioning a Folk Identity: The Peasant-Poet Tradition in Russia," Intertexts (spring, 2001). 

"Foucault and the Gulag," In-between (spring, 2001). 

"Aleksandr Konstantinovich Sheller (A. Mikhailov)" (with Olga Shitareva), in Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, ed. J. Alexander Ogden and Judith E. Kalb, DLB 238 (Detroit: Gale Research, 2001). 

"Pavel Vladimirovich Zasodimsky," in Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, ed. J. Alexander Ogden and Judith E. Kalb, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 238 (Detroit: Gale Research, 2001). 

Translations

Translator, "Dmitri Narkisovich Mamin," by Liubov' Minochkina, in Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, ed. J. Alexander Ogden and Judith E. Kalb, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 238 (Detroit: Gale Research, 2001). 

Translator (with Judith E. Kalb), "Incredible but True," by Alex Levi, in In Place of Our Forebears (Atlanta: Congregation Shearith Israel, 1999), 53-57. 

Translator, Russia and the Outside World: A New Agenda for the 21st Century (Cambridge: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1998). 

Editor and Translator, From the Russian Idea to the Idea of a New Russia: How We Must Overcome a Crisis of Ideas (Cambridge: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1998).