Education
Ph.D. Columbia University, Slavic Languages and Literature
B.A. Harvard University, History and Literature
Research Interests
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian and Southeast European literature and culture; avant-gardes, politics, and poetics; diasporas and transnational cultures; translation and remediation; Danube River and Black Sea studies; digital humanities, new media, and cultural networks
Publications
Monographs
Imagining Russian Hackers: Myths of Men and Machines. Co-authored with Benjamin Peters. Chicago University Press; estimated publication in 2025.
Avant-Garde Post–: Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union. Harvard University Press, 2023.
Nabokov’s Canon: From Onegin to Ada. Northwestern University Press; Columbia University Harriman Institute series, 2016.
Edited Volumes
Nabokov Upside Down. Eds. Brian Boyd and Marijeta Bozovic. Northwestern University Press, 2017.
Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River. Eds. Marijeta Bozovic and Matthew Miller. Academic Studies Press, 2016.
Selected Articles
“Contemporary Movements,” “The Internet,” and “Bakhtin.” In The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature. Eds. Simon Franklin, Rebecca Reich, and Emma Widdis. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
“Post-Soviet Aesthetics.” Co-authored with Rossen Djagalov. In After Marx: Literary Criticism and the Critique of Value. Eds. Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
“Knight Moves: Russifying Quantitative Literary Studies.” With Carlotta Chenoweth, Jacob Lassin, and Trip Kirkpatrick. Russian Literature (Fall 2021): 113-138.
“The Voices of Keti Chukhrov: Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union.” Modern Language Quarterly 80.4 (2019): 453-478.
“The Transnational Vladimir Nabokov, Or, The Perils of Teaching Literature.” In Transnational Russian Studies. Eds. Andy Byford, Connor Doak, and Stephen Hutchings. Liverpool University Press, 2019.
“Nabokov’s Translations and Transnational Canon-Formation.” Translation Studies 11 (2018): 172-184.
“Nabokov’s Visual Imagination.” In Nabokov in Context. Eds. David Bethea and Siggy Frank. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
“Performing Poetry and Protest in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Roman Osminkin.” In Cultural Forms of Political Protest in Russia. Eds. Birgit Beumers, Alexander Etkind, Olga Gurova, and Sanna Turema. Routledge, 2017.
“For Marx: The New Left Russian Cinema.” Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 8 (2016): 108-130.
“The Arrest of Ratko Mladić Online: Tracing Memory Models Across Digital Genres.” Digital Icons 12 (2014): 77-104.
“Poetry on the Front Line: Kirill Medvedev and a New Russian Poetic Avant-Garde.” Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 70.1 (2014): 89-118. Reprinted in “Poetry after Language” colloquy on Stanford University’s online forum ARCADE (2015). Second reprinting in The Idea of the Avant-Garde and What it Means Today, second edition. Ed. Marc Léger. Intellect Ltd., 2019.
Selected Essays
“The F-21, or the KGB Camera.” In Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, exhibit / catalog. Brown, RISD, Yale Universities, 2024.
“A River Unaligned: The Danube in Film and Cold War.” Field Reports, Modernism/modernity (October 2020).
“Whose Forms? Missing Russians in Caroline Levine’s Forms.” Theories and Methodologies Forum. PMLA (October 2017).
“Russia in Exile.” In Artists in Exile, exhibit catalog, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University Press, 2017.
“The Danube and The Ister.” In Festschrift for Radmila Gorup. Ed. Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover. Slavica, 2016.
“Militant Reach: Leftist Art after State Socialism.” Introduction to Vertical Reach: Political Protest and the Militant Aesthetic Now, exhibit catalog, Artspace Gallery, New Haven, 2015.
Selected Honors/Awards
2019 Institute for Critical Social Inquiry Fellow (master class with Étienne Balibar), New School
2016-2018 President’s Global Innovation Fund for “Black Sea Networks” (core collaborator), Columbia University
2016-2018 Whitney Humanities Fellow, Yale University
2016-2017 Public Voices Fellow, Yale University
2015-2017 Digital Textual Studies Faculty Seminar, National Humanities Center
2015-2016 Morse Fellowship, Yale University
2015 Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching, Yale University
2015 Rosenkranz Award, Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University
2013 Torch Medal for Teaching and Mentoring, Colgate University
2012-2013 Mellon Foundation Grant, Central New York Humanities Corridor, Colgate University
Editorial Work
2020 – Film and Media Editor, Slavic Review, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2019 – Associate Editor, ASAP/Journal, John Hopkins University Press
2016 – Co-Editor, Russian Literature (now Slavic Literatures), University of Amsterdam
2015-2017 Curator, “Poetry after Language,” ARCADE Digital Salon, Stanford University
2012-2015 Associate Editor, The Nabokov Online Journal, Dalhousie University
2004-2007 Associate Editor and Editor-in-chief, Ulbandus, Columbia University
Courses Taught at Yale
Graduate Seminars
Second Sex After the Second World
Proseminar in Translation Studies
Russian Avant-Garde Poetry
Russian Symbolist Poetry
Russian Romantic Poetry
Proseminar in Slavic Literatures
Introduction to Russian Poetry
Graduate/Undergraduate Seminars
Yugoslav Film
The Danube River in Literature and Film
Avant-Gardes and Émigrés: Digital Humanities Lab
Joseph Brodsky: Digital Humanities Lab
Undergraduate Lectures and Seminars
Directed Studies
War Games (Associates-in-Teaching, with Spencer Small)
Nabokov and World Literature (WR)
Putin’s Russia and Protest Culture (WR)
Internet Cultures: Histories, Networks, Practices
Masterpieces of Russian Literature II: Revolution (WR)
The Danube River in Literature and Film