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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Course Web Site: RUTR 232 America Through Russian Eyes
PhD University of Michigan
MAThe Ohio State University
BA University of California-Berkeley
Russian Modernism
Contemporary Polish Literature
20th-Century Russian and Central European Cultures
Constructions of Space in Literature
Photography and Literature
Writing Across the Disciplines
With Kelly E. Miller. The Firebird and the Factory: The Modern Russian Children's Book, catalog accompanying exhibition at Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, 2006.
Narrative labels in exhibition catalog for Revolutionary Tides: The Art of the Political Poster, 1789-1989. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University and The Wolfsonian - Florida International University, Miami Beach: Skira, 2005.
Translations in Carnivorous Boy, Carnivorous Bird: Poetry from Poland (Brookline, MA: Zephyr Press, 2004): "Note from the End of the Year," "Hunting for the Kangaroo," "It's Cool. Nobody Knows Anything," and "Points to Hang Onto," by Krzysztof Sliwka; "The House's Weakness," "We," "39°," "Storm," "Conspiracy of Former Men," by Wojciech Bonowicz; and "The Works of Angels," "So Think, Why Not the Resurrection of Crayfish," "Journey," "I Am Coming Out of the Rain," and "Poster Boys," by Dariusz Suska.
Translation of Tales of Galicia, by Andrzej Stasiuk (Prague: Twisted Spoon, 2003). Includes translator's afterword and notes.
Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award, University of Virginia (2007)
University of Virginia Summer Research Grant (2006)
University Teaching Fellow, University of Virginia (2005-06)
Title VII Research Scholar (Moscow, Russia), American Councils for International Education ACTR-ACCELS (2005)
Research Support in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Virginia (2005)
Invited participant, First World Congress of Translators of Polish Literature, sponsored by Polish Institute of the Book, held in Krakow, Poland. (2005)
Excellence in Diversity Fellow, University of Virginia (2004-2005)