Major interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russian Literature; Solzhenitsyn; Russian Intellectual History; Russian and East European Pop Culture; Russian and East European Science Fiction; Bulgarian History, Literature and Culture; Political Bodies.

Fiction (As Roland Harrington): 

• Zolotaia kost'  (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie: 2004). A novel about an American professor who goes to modern-day Russia and crowns himself czar.

Selected Publications:

• 2007 “Putin i Eltsin. Mitopoeticho izsledvane,” Altera Academica, No 2.
• 2005 “Gachev Rampant, Rozanov Couchant, or Russia’s Two Physiologists of Culture,” New Zealand Slavonic Journal, Volume 39, 62-80.
• 2005 “Tolstoi i Solzhenitsyn: Vstrecha v Iasnoi Poliane,” Mezhdu dvumia  iubileiami (1998-2003), ed. N. A. Struve, V. A. Moskvin (Moscow:  Russkii Put'), 393-408.
• 2004 “Gagarin and Khomiakov: Two Lives, Two Doctrines,” A. S. Khomiakov: Poet, Philosopher, Theologian, ed. Vladimir Tsurikov (Jordanville: Holy Trinity Seminary Press), 66-98.
• 1996 Ivan Gagarin, Dnevnik. Zapiski o moei zhizni. Perepiska. Sostavlenie, vstupitel'nye stat'i, perevod s frantsuzskogo i kommentarii Richarda Tempesta (Iazyki russkoi kul'tury: Moscow), 350 pp.
• 1991 The Philosophical Works of Peter Chaadaev, ed. Raymond T. McNally and Richard Tempest (Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht), 321 pp.
• 1990 Pierre Tchaadaev, Oeuvres inédites ou rares, éditées par François Rouleau, Raymond T. McNally et Richard Tempest (Bibliothèque Slave: Paris), 316 pp.
• 2001 "Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn: A Study in Comparative Mythopoetics," Life Lines: Perspectives on Russian and European Culture, Society and Politics, ed. Nicholas S. Racheotes ( East European Monographs: Boulder), 5-32.
• 1997 "The Geometry of Hell: The Poetics of Space and Time in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. A Critical Companion, ed. Alexis Klimoff (Northwestern University Press: Evanston), 54-69.

Current projects:

• Guest editor, Slavic Review, special issue on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (summer 2009).
• "Completing the Circle: The Fictions of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (book)

Courses Recently Taught:

• REEES 450: From Dandies to Men of Steel: Gender, Sexuality, Masculinity, and the Body in Russia 1830-1930 (team-taught graduate course)
• REEES 495/550: Identities, Narratives, Cultural Values and Change: Approaches to the Interdisciplinary Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Asia
• Russian 115: Russian Masterpieces in Translation
• Russian 225: Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Literature
• Russian 320/520: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Slav 117: Russian and East European Science Fiction
• Slav 592: Pop Goes the Bloc! The Representation of Group Identities through the Media of Popular Culture in Russia, Eastern Europe and the Balkans