Major interests: Chekhov, Literature and Medicine, Literature and Psychoanalysis, Aviation and Popular Culture.

Selected publications (Books):

• Seeing Chekhov: Life and Art (Cornell University Press, 2005).
• Metapoesis: The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov (Duke University Press, 1995)
• Chekhov the Immigrant: Translating a Cultural Icon, proceedings of October 2004 NEH symposium, co-edited with Julie de Sherbinin of Colby College (Slavica Press, forthcoming).
• One Hundred Years of Masochism: Literary Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts, co-edited with Carl Niekerk (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000).

Selected publications (Articles):

• “Heal Thyself, Hide Thyself: Why Did Chekhov Ignore His TB?” forthcoming in Chekhov the Immigrant (see above).
• “Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams: A Conversation with Dr. Robert Coles,” video documentary (42 minutes), to appear in Chekhov the Immigrant (see above).
• “Dostoevsky's ‘White Nights' and Turgenev,” In Other Words: Studies in Honor of Vadim Liapunov (Indiana Slavic Studies, vol. 11 [2000]), 27-58.
• “Sacher-Masoch, Turgenev, and Other Russians,” One Hundred Years of Masochism: Literary Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts , ed. Michael Finke and Carl Niekerk (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), 119-137.
• “Figures for History in Kapitanskaia dochka and Poets as Historical Figures in Istoriia Pugacheva , in The Pushkin Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1993): 167-83.