Dissertation: "Time in the Lyric Poetry of Joseph Brodsky."
Specialties/Research Interests: Russian poetry; literary and critical theory; the relationship of literature and
philosophy; the use of literary texts in the teaching of secondary languages.
Current project(s): Completing monograph on Brodsky; beginning monograph on Derzhavin and Kant.
Courses regularly taught:
R263/563-264/564 (two semester overview of Russian literature).
Graduate courses on Russian literature of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Recent publications:
"Derzhavin's Metaphysics of Morality," Slavic Review 66 (Summer 2007): 189-210.
"Alexander Pushkin and the Irony of Temporality," Pushkin Review 8-9 (2005-2006), 1-25.
