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Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004.

Czech and Russian literature and culture, nationalism, Slavic literary theory and criticism, Slavic folklore, Slovak literature.

Creating the Nation: Identity and Aesthetics in Early Nineteenth-century Russia and Bohemia, under contract with Northern Illinois University Press
Traditional Slovak Folktales; Collected by Pavol Dobšinský. Translation with introduction and commentary. M. E. Sharpe, 2001.

"The Rukopis Královédvorský and the Formation of Czech National Literary History," in Between Texts, Languages, and Cultures: A Festschrift for Michael Henry Heim, ed. Craig Cravens, Masako U. Fidler, and Susan C. Kresin (Slavica Publishers, 2008), 157–67.
"Narodnost' avant la lettre? Andrei Turgenev, Aleksei Merzliakov, and the National Turn in Russian Criticism," Slavic and East European Journal 52, no. 3 (Fall 2008): 351–69 .
"Competing Languages of Czech Nation-Building: Jan Kollár and the Melodiousness of Czech," Slavic Review 67, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 301-20.
"Vasilii Zhukovskii as a Translator and the Protean Russian Nation," The Russian Review 66, no. 2 (April 2007): 185-203.
"Myth, Motif, and Motivation: Pavol Dobšinský's Theory and Practice of the Wondertale," Folklorica 9, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 6-13.