Nadia Michoustina received a Bachelor of Arts in English and French
(1993) and a Master of Arts in English (1996) from the University of
Texas at Arlington; a Master of Arts in Russian with a minor in Art
History (1999) and a Masters of Philosophy from Columbia University
(2005). She is currently completing her dissertation on Anton Chekhov
and Photography at Columbia. Her research interests include Chekhov;
History of Photography; Modernism; Vladimir Mayakovsky; Socialist
realism; Feminist theory; Cultural studies; Critical theory; Foreign
Language Acquisition; Pedagogy.