Education
BA, English, University of British Columbia, 1987
Pushkin Russian Language Institute (certificate in Russian), 1989
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1998
Research Interests
Documentary and experimental film, early Soviet culture and its later reception, Marxist theory, the comparative and cross-linguistic study of film and media concepts, and the comparative study of the short story form
Publications
Dziga Vertov: Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896–1921)
True Songs of Freedom: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Russian Culture and Society
Inscription and Modernity: From Wordsworth to Mandelstam
“Disorganized Noise: Enthusiasm and the Ear of the Collective,” in KinoKultura
Courses Taught
Russian Culture: The Modern Age
Old Russian Culture Through Cinema
19th-Century Russian Culture Through Cinema
Russian Film
The Utopian Imagination in Russia
Slavery and Serfdom in Russian and American Literature
Issues in Contemporary Film Theory