Specialties/Research Interests:
- Russian "realism", literature and medicine, translation theory, the Russian and English modernist short story, influence and adaptation, metafiction.
Topics of interest that may insinuate themselves into future work include: pregnancy and procreation in literature and film; the figure of the sun at noon and its attendant narrative stasis; Nabokov’s lectures; bad pathographies of Chekhov and a host of other Russian writers.