Present Position
Adjunct Lecturer of Russian Language and Literature, Drew University

Education
Columbia University, New York, NY
Ph.D. in Russian Literature and Comparative Literature, expected 2009
Dissertation: "Tolstoy and Zola: The Railroads in Late Nineteenth-Century French and Russian Literature"
Harriman Institute, Harriman Certificate, May 2006
B.A. in Comparative Literature, 1999

Courses Taught
Drew University, Madison, NJ
The Fantastic in Russian Literature, Fall 2008
Intermediate Russian (Golosa 2), Fall 2008

Columbia University, New York, NY
Science Fiction Internationalism, Summer 2008
Intensive Intermediate Russian (V Puti), Summer 2007 and Summer 2008
Intermediate Russian (V Puti), 2005-2007
First-Year Russian (Nachalo 1 and 2), 2003-2005

Presentations
"La Bete humaine: Railroading Crime and Punishment," conference paper, AATSEEL, San Francisco, December 2008.

"The Railroad in Anna Karenina," presentation in Senior Thesis seminar, Columbia Universtiy, New York, october 2008.

"Language Teaching Orientation," panel Particpant, Columbia University, New York, August 2008.

"Using Technology in the Classroom," presentation, Workshop: "It’s All Greek To Me: Critical Issues in Language Teaching," presentation, Columbia University, New York, February 2008.

"Anna Karenina: Railroading Madame Bovary," conference paper, AATSEEL, Chicago, December 2007.

"Planning Lessons and Using PowerPoint," presentation, "Orientation Workshop for Foreign Language Teaching Fellows," Columbia University, New York, August 2007.

Related Experience
Participated in "Russian Language Pedagogy Workshop," Middlebury College, Vermont

Organized "Intimate Enemies--Maryse Conde and Richard Philcox: A Conversation Between an Author and Her Translator," Center for Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, November 2005.

Interests: 19th-century Russian novel; 19th-century French novel; 20th-century science fiction; the fantastic; technology in late 19th-century Russian and French novels, especially the railroad.