Professor; Department Chair and Graduate Chair
121 St. Joseph Street, Alumni Hall Room 407, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
416-946-3008
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Russian
Areas of Interest
19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture, 19th and 20th century French literature and culture, Modernist studies, Jewish studies, comparative approaches to literary and cultural studies.
Courses Taught
SLA212 - The Russian Novel
SLA263 - Russian-French Cultural History
SLA302 / SLA1207 - The Imaginary Jew
SLA312 / SLA1239 - Nabokov
SLA345 / SLA1231 - Russian Modernism
SLA421 / SLA1223 - Introduction to Russian Poetry and Poetics
Education
PhD, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1999
MA, Middlebury College, 1998 - French language and literature
MA, The Unviersity of Wisconsin - Madison, 1996 - Slavic languages and literatures
BA, The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, 1993
Publications
- Histoire culturelle de l’émigration russe en France (Eur'Orbem éditions : 2022)
- Жила-была переводчица : Людмила Савицкая и Константин Бальмонт (Новое литературное обозрение : 2019)
- A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's Petersburg (University of Wisconsin Press : 2018)
- In Search of Russian Modernism (Johns Hopkins University Press : 2018)
- Литературный авангард русского Парижа : история, хроника, антология, документы : 1920-1926 (ОГИ Объединенное гуманитарное издательство : 2014)
- Юрий Фельзен: Собрание сочинений (Водолей : 2012)
- The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian Literature (Stanford University Press : 2010)
- Russian Émigrés in the Intellectual and Literary Life of Inter-War France: A Biographical Essay (McGill-Queen's University Press : 2010)
- Le Studio Franco-Russe, 1929-1931 (Toronto Slavic Library : 2005)
- How It Was Done in Paris: Russian Émigré Literature and French Modernism (University of Wisconsin Press : 2003)
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