Major interests: Russian literature and culture of the late eighteenth--nineteenth centuries; Literature and Science; Travel literature; Ukrainian and Czech literatures.

Publications:

Book:
Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination, under contract with the University of Washington Press.

Articles:

• "In search of an Alternative Love Plot: Tolstoy, Science, and Post-Romantic Love Narratives." Tolstoy Studies Journal XIX (2007): 54-74.
• "'Febris Erotica': Alexander Herzen's Post-Romantic Physiology." Slavic Review 65, no. 1 (Fall 2006): 502-22.
• "Nerves, Brain, or Heart? The Physiology of Emotions and the Mind-Body Problem in Russian Sentimentalism." Russian Review 65. 1 (January 2006): 1-14.
• "'Yes, We Are Scythians': The Image of Russia in Josef Skvorecký's The Cowards." SEEJ 49.1 (Spring 2005): 79-93.
• "Reading the invisible: The Mind, the Body, and the Medical Examiner in Lev Tolstoy's Anna Karenina." In: Anna Karenina on Page and Screen. Studies in Slavic Cultures II, 2001. 9-29.
• "'Shumom bala utomlennyj'": The Physiological Aspect of the Society Ball and the Subversion of Romantic Rhetoric." Russian Literature XLIX-III (April 2001): 293-314.
• "The Eschatological Myth as a Basis for the Interpretation of E. A. Baratynskii's book Sumerki" in: Mifopoetychnyi pidkhid do interpretatsii khudozhnioho tekstu (Kyiv, 1995). In Russian.

Book reviews:

• Brintlinger, Angela and Ilya Vinitsky, eds. Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. In Russian Review 67. 2 (April 2008): 332-33.
• Jean Breuillard, ed. Le Sentimentalisme Russe . Revue des Etudes Slaves , Tome 74, Fascicule 4 (Paris: Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 2002-2003). In Eighteenth-Century Fiction 18.3 (2006): 377-80.
• Lyubov Kiseleva, ed. Pushkinskie chteniia v Tartu 3. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii, posviashchennoi 220-letiiu V.A. Zhukovskogo i 200-letiiu F.I. Tiutcheva. Tartu : Tartu University Press, 2004. Slavic and East European Journal 50.1 (Spring 2007): 146-48.

Courses recently taught:

• RUSS 470 : Between East and West: The Literary Journey and the Exploration of Russian National Identity
• RUSS 501-502: Russian for Graduate Students I and II
• RUSS 301-302 (formerly RUSS 213-214): Third-Year Russian I and II
• RUSS 220 (formerly RUSS 315): Survey of 19th-Cent Russian Literature: Fallen Women and Superfluous Men