Education

  • M.A. Russian, Universität Passau, 2020
  • B.A. Linguistics, Southern Federal University, 2016
  • Research, Teaching, Practice, and Clinical Appointments

    • Assisstant Lecturer (Russian Language), University of Southern California, 08/25/2022-05/15/2023
    • Russian Language Instructor, Middlebury University, 06/15/2023-08/15/2023
    • Assisstant Lecturer (Russian Language), University of Southern California, 08/25/2024-12/15/2024

    Other Employment

    • Studentische Hilfscraft (Student Assisstant), Passau Universitat, 10/15/2019 – 01/15/2021
  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    My main research interests are focused on the way senses, especially vision and hearing, participate in creation of the political in late Soviet culture. I am currently working on my dissertation project, in which I think about how popular culture of perestroika was defining the limits of what could be voiced and depicted in a rapidly changing cultural and political environment.

    • (spring 2022) RUSS 220. Russian III
    • (summer 2022) RUSS 250. Russian IV
    • (spring 2024) RUSS 310. Advanced Russian in Popular Culture