[education]

 [awards]

• Combined Research and Language Training Fellowship, ACTR [U.S. Title VIII], spring 2007
• Davis Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, fall 2006
• PepsiCo Travel Fellowship, Harriman Institute, fall 2006
• PepsiCo Travel Fellowship, Harriman Institute, summer 2005
• U.S. Dept. of Ed. Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for study in Russia, summer 2005
• Volodymyr and Lydia Bazarko Fellowship, Harriman Institute, 2002-03
• Junior Fellowship, Harriman Institute, 2002-03
• President’s Fellow Dissertation Award, Columbia University, 2000-2001
• Elena T. Mogilat-John P. Mihaly Fellowship, Columbia University, Summer 1998
• Summer Language Fellowship, Harriman Institute, 1996
• Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University, 1994-99

 [official interests]

 [unofficial interests]

 [courses taught]

  At Barnard:

• BC 1169: Reinventing Literary History -- Legacy of the Mediterranean (Barnard First-Year Seminar)
• BC 1330: Reinventing Literary History -- Women and Culture (Barnard First-Year Seminar)
• BC1617, Reacting to the Past (Barnard First-Year Seminar)
• Russian V3221, Literature and Revolution
  Note: this course satisfies a requirement for the Russian major and can also be used to fulfil the LIT requirement at Barnard.
• Comp. Lit. V3235: Imagining the Self (undergraduate lecture, Comp. Lit.)
• Russian V3467:20th-Century Prose Writers: Short Fiction of the 1920s and '30s [in Russian]
• Russian V3595, Senior Seminar (for Russian majors)
  Note: required of all students writing a senior thesis in the Slavic Department.
• RUSS V3596: Supervised Individual Research
• RUSS W4033: The Making of Socialist Realism (graduate-level seminar, open to advanced undergraduates)
• Russian G6039, Literature, Politics, and Tradition After Stalin [PDF]
  Notes: Knowledge of Russian not required (dual reading list available). Open to advanced undergraduates with the instructor's permission.
• Comp. Lit.--Russian G6110: The Discourse of Self in Russia and the West (graduate seminar, Comp. Lit./Russian)
• History--Poli.Sci. G8445: Legacies of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union (Harriman Institute Core Colloquium, crosslisted with History and Political Science). Co-taught with Alexander Motyl.
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• HSSL W3224: Cities and Civilizations: Intro. to Eurasian Studies (guest lecturer)

  Other teaching experience:

• Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy* (1999-2000, 2001-2002)
• What is Great Literature? (Summer 2000)
• Logic and Rhetoric (1997-1998)
• Intermediate Russian (Summers: 1997, 1998, 2002)
• Elementary Russian (1996-1997, 1998-1999, Summer 2003)

  *nominated for teaching award in 2001-02

 [written]

 [translated]

 [writing]

• Isaac Babel and the Self-ishness of Odessan Modernism (book manuscript)
• "Magical Discourses in Soviet Literature" (book project in development)
• "'A Monstrous Staircase': Inscribing the Revolution of 1905 On Odessa" (book chapter)
• "A Dog's-Eye View of the Soviet Union" (article, for Ulbandus 11)
• "Nabokov's Hero of Our Time: A Five-Fold Self-Narrative" (article MS)
  
  

 [selected public presentations]

 [web sites]

 [service ]

(a) To the Department and College:

• Faculty Governance and Procedures Committee, 2007-present (BC)
• Webmaster, Slavic Department web site, 2003- present (CU)
• Harriman Institute Undergraduate Fellowship Committee, 2007-8 (CU)
• Barnard Library and Academic Information Systems Committee, 2005-06 (BC)
• eBear portal redesign committee, spring 2006
• Slavic Department Curriculum Committee, 2005-6, 2003-4 (CU)
• Harriman Institute Self-Study Committee, 2005-6 (CU)
• Organizing committee for scholarly conference in honor of the late Robert Maguire, 2005-6 (CU)
• Major advising: eleven Russian major advisees in 2005-6 (BC)
• Academic advising: 12 first-year students, plus continuing sophomores, yearly (BC)
• In-Residence First-Year Seminar, 2005-6 (BC)
• “What Is a First-Year Seminar?,” mini-seminar for parents, Family Weekend, 2005 (BC)
• Adjudicator, Pushkin Prize (Department prize for poetry translation) 2004 (CU)
  

(b) To the Profession:

• Book reviews: Boris Gasparov, Five Operas and a Symphony; Sofia Moshevich, Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist; for Slavic and East European Journal [in progress].
• Panels and roundtables organized:
  • Odessa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the “Golden City,”AAASS 2007 national convention
  • The Uses of Popular Culture, I & II (two-part roundtable), AAASS 2007 national convention
  • The Uses of Popular Culture, AAASS 2006 national convention
  • Babel’s Odessa (special roundtable in conjunction with theatrical performance based on Isaac Babel’s Odessa Tales), AATSEEL 2005 national convention
  • Nabokov and Others, AAASS 2005 national convention

(c ) To the Community:

• Organized visit and performance by Georgian folk ensemble Zedashe at Columbia University, October 18, 2007.
• Interview, “City Cinematheque,” CUNY-TV. 30-minute discussion of Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror (1975), with host Jerry Carlson. First broadcast April 8, 2006; re-broadcast periodically.
• Organized public lecture, “Nabokov, Or What Could Be Verse,” by Brian Boyd, author of definitive two-volume critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov. Harriman Institute, November 14, 2005.
• Lectured and led discussion on Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov at meeting of Columbia College Alumnae Book Club. Fall 2000.

 [professional associations]

• AAASS | American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
• AATSEEL | American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
• MLA | Modern Languages Association of America
• a/b | Autobiography Society
• PCA | American Popular Culture Association

 [languages]

 [bits and pieces]

• Translator & Editor | Russian Musical Arts Society of America | 1995-present
  Translation of conductor's notes and texts of Russian works; creation of concert program.
• Singer | Russian Chamber Chorus of New York | 1990-present
  Carnegie Hall performances under Leon Botstein, Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and others; American premiere of John Tavener's The Veil of the Temple at Lincoln Center.
• Guest Lecturer | W3224: Cities and Civilizations | 2003
• Soprano Soloist | Church of the Good Shepherd | 2001 (Summer, Christmas), 2002 (Summer)
  Professional singing position, including solos, cantoring and section leading.
• Chair | Slavic Graduate Forum | 2000-2002
• Guest Lecturer | Columbia College Alumnae Book Club | Fall 2000
  Lectured and led discussion on The Brothers Karamazov.
• Chorus Preparer & Leader | Barnard-Columbia Ancient Drama Group | 1994-1997
  Annual productions of Ancient Greek tragedies in the original.

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