Courses Taught

Translation (graduate courses unless otherwise specified)

  • Introduction to Russian to English Translation

  • Advanced Seminar in Russian to English Translation

  • Literary Translation

  • Translation Theory

  • Comparative Systems for Translators

  • Undergraduate Spanish to English Translation (undergraduate translation course team-taught with Spanish professor V. Daniel Rogers)

  • Undergraduate German to English Translation

Russian literature and culture (undergraduate courses):

  • Twentieth-century Russian literature in translation (fulfills Writing requirement)

  • Nineteenth-century Russian literature in translation

  • Survey of Russian film and culture

  • Senior Seminar (Fourth-year Russian) on Early Soviet Satire (taught in Russian)

  • Chekhov’s Table (3-week intensive course on food, culture and society in Chekhov’s

    writing, taught in English; includes a cooking component)

Russian language (undergraduate courses):

  • First-year Russian (textbooks used: Nachalo; Russian Stage One: Live from Moscow!)

  • Second-year Russian (textbooks used: V puti; Russian Stage Two: Welcome Back!)

  • Third-year Russian (textbooks used: Political Russian; Focus on Russian)

  • Intensive fourth-semester Russian (accelerated summer-term course)

  • Intensive second-year Russian (U. of Michigan Summer Language Institute)

Other (taught as Graduate Student Assistant Instructor):

  • Great Books 191 (Survey of western literature from Homer to Plato for University of Michigan Honors freshmen; fulfills Writing requirement)

  • Great Books 192 (Survey of western literature from Plato to Boccaccio for University of Michigan Honors freshmen; primary instructor: Prof. H. D. Cameron)

  • Central European Cinema: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender (fulfills Race and Ethnicity requirement and Writing requirement; primary instructor: Prof. H. Eagle)

Academic Positions Held

Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Spring 2018 - present)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Wabash College (Spring 2018 & 2020, Fall 2019)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Williams College (2007-2008)

Visiting Assistant Professor and Chair of Russian, The College of Wooster (2006-2007)

Lecturer (Great Books and Russian), The University of Michigan (2005-2006)

Graduate Student Instructor (Great Books and Russian), University of Michigan (2000-2005, off and on)