Professor of Russian Literature
Education: Vassar College (B.A., 1969, Russian and German Literature), Brown University (M.A., 1974, Russian Literature), Yale University (Ph.D., 1980, Russian Literature)
Research Interests: Russian 19th-century poetry; post-Symbolist poetry; the Russian avant-garde; Nabokov; Russian women’s writing; film adaptation; time; memory
Courses taught (undergraduate): Russian Poetry, Drama, Nabokov, “Great Disillusionments,” “Russian Fiction, Foreign Film”
Courses taught (graduate): Old Russian Literature, Acmeism, Futurism, Tsvetaeva and Pasternak, Russian Ornamentalist Prose
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Authored:
Pushkin’s Tatiana – Wisconsin University Press, 1999.
Tsvetaeva’s Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word – Northwestern
University Press, 1996.
Translated and edited:
America Through Russian Eyes (with S. Fusso), Yale University Press, 1988.
Articles (selected):
“Time and Memory in Nabokov’s Lolita,” in Kronoscope (forthcoming 2005).
“Black Pushkin” in Pushkin and Blackness, ed. Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (Northwestern U. Press, forthcoming 2004).
“Valerii Briusov as Marina Tsvetaeva’s Anti-Muse” in Vieldeutiges Nicht-zu-
Ende-Sprechen, eds. Arja Rosenholm and Frank Göpfert (Fichtenwalde,
2002): 191-204
“Vremia i prostranstvo v ‘Prazhskom rytsare’,” in Dni Mariny Tsvetaevoi –
Vsehnory 2000, novye rezul’taty issledovanii (Praga, 2002): 141-150.
“The Woman Poet’s Tatiana,” in Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation
(Routledge Harwood, 2001): 205-218.
“Karolina Pavlova’s Dvoinaia zhizn’,” in Essays on Karolina Pavlova
(Northwestern U. Press, 2001): 53-65.
“Tsvetaeva’s Cycle Poety,” in Marina Tsvetaeva: One Hundred Years (Berkeley
Slavic Specialties, 1994): 131-146.
“Reading Suicide: Tsvetaeva on Esenin and Mayakovsky,” Slavic Review (vol.
50, no. 4, 1991): 836-846.
“Time and Process in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Definition of Lyric Verse,” in Time and Process: The Study of Time VII (International Universities Press, 1993):
189-204.
“Poema vs. Cycle in the Context of Cvetaeva’s Definition of Lyric Verse,” in
Slavic and East European Journal (vol. 32, no. 3, 1988): 390-398.
“Multiplicity of Perspective as Metaphor for Poetic Creation in Pasternak’s
‘Opredelenie poezii’ and ‘Opredelenie tvorchestva,” in International
Journal for Slavic Linguistics and Poetics (vol. XXXIV, 1986): 113-121.
“Cvetaeva’s Onomastic Verse,” in Slavic Review (vol. 45, no. 2, 1986): 245-256.
“Cvetaeva’s Sibylline Lyrics,” in Russian Literature (vol. XIX, 1986): 323-340.
“’Your Death’ – The Living Water of Cvetaeva’s Art,” in Russian Literature (vol.
XIII, 1983): 41-64.
Work in Progress:
1) How Women Must Write: Devising a Poetic Self, a study of socio-cultural dynamics of self-presentations of Russian women poets
2) Literary representations of ephemerality