Major interests: Czech and Russian literature and culture, nationalism, Slavic literary theory and criticism, Slavic folklore, Slovak literature.

Publications:

• "Narodnost' avant la lettre? Andrei Turgenev, Aleksei Merzliakov, and the National Turn in Russian Criticism," forthcoming in Slavic and East European Journal 52, no. 3 (Fall 2008).
• "Competing Languages of Czech Nation-Building: Jan Kollár and the Melodiousness of Czech," Slavic Review 67, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 301-20.
• "Vasilii Zhukovskii as a Translator and the Protean Russian Nation," The Russian Review 66, no. 2 (April 2007): 185-203.
• "Myth, Motif, and Motivation: Pavol Dobšinský's Theory and Practice of the Wondertale." Folklorica 9, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 6-13.
• Traditional Slovak Folktales; Collected by Pavol Dobšinský. Translation with introduction and commentary. M. E. Sharpe, 2001.

Current project: "In Search of a National Literature: The Modernization of Russian and Czech Literary Discourse, 1800-1830"

Courses recently taught:

• Czech 484 Readings in Czech
• Czech 201 Second-Year Czech I
• Russian 320/520 Russian Writers: Nikolai Gogol
• Slavic 120: Slavic Folklore
• Slavic 452 Polish and Czech Avant-Gardes (with George Gasyna)
• Slavic 477 Postcommunist Fiction