Curriculum Vitae
Present Position
Assistant Professor, Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
Education
Columbia University, New York, NY, Ph.D. in Russian Literature 2004
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, B.A. in History/International Relations Phi Beta Kappa 1993
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, B.A. in History/International Relations Phi Beta Kappa 1993
Courses Taught
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Art Nature Knowledge 2008
Man the Maker 2008
Disease and Literature 2007
Myth Reason Faith 2007
The Terrorist Novel 2007
Barnard College, New York, NY
Legacy of the Mediterranean 2007
Women and Culture 2006
Legacy of the Mediterranean 2007
Women and Culture 2006
New York University, New York, NY
The Terrorist Novel 2006
Introduction to Russian Literature I 2005
Columbia University, New York, NY
Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy 1998-2006
Elementary Russian 1995-1998
Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy 1998-2006
Elementary Russian 1995-1998
European College of Liberal Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The "Accursed Questions" and Modern Man summer 2005
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Russian Culture and Civilization 2003
Russian Culture and Civilization 2003
Publications
Editor (with Jefferson Gatrall), Alter Icons: The Russian Icon and Modernity. Penn State UP (2010)
"Florensky and the Binocular Body," Alter Icons: The Russian Icon and Modernity
Review of Maria Gough, The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution. Slavic and East European Journal 51.2
"Revenants and Revolutionaries: Body and Society in Bogdanov's Martian Novels." Slavic and East European Journal 50.4
Translator (with Devin Fore), Nikolai Chuzhak, "A Writer's Handbook." OCTOBER Magazine 118
"Sight Unseen: The Optic of Vasily Rozanov." Slavic Review (forthcoming)
Review of Vladimir Tsurikov, ed. A.S. Khomiakov: Poet, Philosopher, Theologian. Slavic and East European Journal 49.3
"From the Hothouse to the Harem: Rozanov and Decadence." Ulbandus, The Slavic Review of Columbia University 8
"Gogol's Bird-Troika and the Bronze Horses of San Marco." Ulbandus, The Slavic Review of Columbia University 6
Editor, Depictions: Slavic Studies in the Narrative and Visual Arts in Honor of William Harkins. Dana Point: Ardis, 1999
Work in Progress
A book, Russian Utopias and the Remaking of the Observer
An article, "Spa/Gulag," on discourses of rehabilitation in Russia and the Soviet Union
An edited volume on Russian literature and the city. A chapter, "The Terrorist City"
Presentations
"The Icon and the Ad: Advertising in Modern Russian Religious Thought" The Culture of Russian Orthodoxy, Columbia University, New York, March 2008
"Making Memory: Repetition and Invention in Nikolai Fedorov's Common Task" AAASS National Convention, New Orleans, November 2007
"'Blueprint for Health': Soviet Sanatoria and the Gulag" Faculty Colloquium Series, Bucknell University, October 2007
"Page-ing Dr. Werner: Physician to the Stars" "From My Wondrous, Beautiful Far-Away": Modern Russian Literature in Retrospect. A Conference In Memory of Robert A. Maguire, Columbia University, New York City, March 2006
"'Health Factories': Utopian Sanatoriums" AAASS National Convention, Salt Lake City, November 2005
"Is There Love on Mars?: Sex and the Soviet Vampire" The Harriman Institute at Columbia University, New York City, February 2005
"Revenants and Revolutionaries: Ideology and Physiology on the Red Star" AATSEEL Annual Conference, Philadelphia, December 2004
"'Permafrost is Hellenism': The Imagination of Permafrost" AAASS National Convention, Boston, December 2004
"Constipation and Utopia" MLA Annual Convention, San Diego, December, 2003
"The Art of Memory: Nikolai Fedorov's Murals" AAASS National Convention, Toronto, November 2003
"Florensky and the Binocular Body" The Icon and Modernity conference, Columbia University, New York City, October 2003
"Sight Unseen: Religion and Spectacle in Rozanov" The Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June 2003
"Rozanov: Naked Gazes, Clothed Bodies" Recontextualizing Russian Women's Studies conference, Columbia University, New York, April 2003
"The Living Museum in Russian Religious Thought" Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, AAASS, New York, March 2003
"The Cost of Loving: The Figure of the Numismatist in the Work of Vasily Rozanov" AATSEEL Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., December 1996