Research Interests:
20th century Russian literature and culture; environmental humanities; energy humanities; petrocultures; science and literature; the Caucasus
Education:
McGill University - Master of Arts in Russian Studies (2021)
Dalhousie University - Bachelor of Arts, Combined Honors in English and Russian Studies (2018)
Publications:
“Ethnography, Myth, and the Figure of the Narrator in Hadji-Murat.” Tolstoy
Studies Journal, special issue on “Tolstoy and Russian Imperialism,”
vol. 35, 2023.
Conference Presentations and Talks:
“Noise of Time’s Shifting Energy Regimes.” Modernism and its
“Environments,” Princeton, NJ, April 2024.
“Черный уголь – подземный мессия: A Geological Reading of Blok’s
‘Новая Америка.’” AATSEEL Conference, Las Vegas, NV, February
2024.
“Monitoring and Representing Tree Loss in the North Caucasus, 1817-64.”
ASEEES Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 2023.
“Ethnography, Myth, and the Figure of the Narrator in Hadji-Murat.” Tolstoy
and Russian Imperialism (conference hosted by the Tolstoy Society of North America), Tbilisi, Georgia, June 2023.
Honors and Awards:
MacMillan Center International Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, Yale University (2024)
MacMillan Center International Conference Travel Grant, Yale University (2023)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada - Master’s Award (2020)
Professional Activities:
Organizer, Eurasian Ecologies Working Group and Workshop Series, Yale University (2023-)
Assistant to Chair of Programming Committee, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) (2019-2024)