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I received my Ph.D. in Russian Literature from the University of Kansas. I am Professor of Russian at Michigan State University. I served as the Director of the Middlebury College Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian from 2010 until 2024. I am currently the Associate Director of MSU’s Center for European and Eurasian Studies and Associate Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures (LiLaC).

My research interests include:

• The Russian Symbolist movement, especially the works of Fedor Sologub (1863-1927);
• Russian language pedagogy;
• Russian cinema