Major interests: Film and drama in Russia and East Europe, descriptive grammar of Russian and Old Church Slavonic, history of Russian, world film history.

Selected publications:

• "Kuleshov--Prophet without Honor?" Film Culture, no. 44 (1967), pp. 1-41.

• "Russian Drama after Chekhov--Guide to English Translations, 1900-1969," with John Dunkelberger, Theater Documentation, v. 2, no. 1 (1969), pp. 85-108.

Courses recently taught: RUSS 119: History of Russian Film, SLAV 319: Studies in Russian and East European Film, SLAV 405: Old Church Slavonic,
SLAV 417: History of Russian Language, RUSS 308: Phonectis and Pronunciation, RUSS 121/400 and 200/401: Russian for Reading, Cinema Studies 261: Survey of World Cinema (1895-1930s)