Dissertation title: “On the Margins of Experiment: State sponsorship of radical aesthetics in Soviet

cinema, 1960–1968”

Education: 

M.A. Russian Literature, University of Chicago, 2009
B.A. Liberal Arts, St. John’s College (Annapolis, MD), 2005

Areas of Interest:

• Soviet and West European cinema 
• 19th and 20th century Russian literature
• Russian and Soviet visual culture
• Modernism and the visual arts

Awards:

• Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant (Academic Year) 2013-2014
• Abby and George O’Neill Graduate Research Travel Grant 2011, 2014
• Maurice Lazarus Graduate Research Travel Award 2013